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Aug 19, 1922 — Jan 5, 2013· 90 yrs

UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · FICTION · POLICE

Gwendoline Butler

Also known as: Gwendoline Williams Butler, Gwendoline Butler

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Gwendoline Williams was born on 19 August 1922 in Blackheath, South London, England, UK, daughter of Alice (Lee) and Alfred Edward Williams, her younger twin brothers are also authors. Educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read History, and later lectured there. On 16th October 1949, she married Dr Lionel Harry Butler (1923-1981), a professor of medieval history at University of St. Andrews and historian, Fellow of All Souls and Principal of Royal Holloway College. The marriage had a daughter, Lucilla Butler. In 1956, she started to published John Coffin novels under her married name, Gwendoline Butler. In 1962, she decided used her grandmother's name, Jennie Melville as pseudonym to sing her Charmian Daniels novels. She was credited for inventing the "woman's police procedural". In addition to her mystery series, she also wrote romantic novels. In 1981, her novel The Red Staircase won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I live there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

— from A Death in the Family, 1995

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The Brides of Friedberg

1977

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Amid the royal splendor of the German court, vibrant young Trelawney Adair found that her secret attraction toward Prince Frederick, her sister's husband, had cast her inexplicably under a dark cloud of suspicion. Day by day her beautiful sister, Daisy, was growing mysteriously weaker, and gossip and innuendo about both Trelawney and Frederick were everywhere... But only when bitter evidence of foul play and poisonous meadowsweet began to strike closer and closer did Trelawney realize that the sister she loved had been marked for death---and she herself maked as the perfect killer...

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The red staircase

1979

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St Petersburg, 1912. Rose Gowrie is a Scottish girl with a mysterious gift for healing who is hired into the aristocratic household of Dolly Denisov, supposedly as a companion for the youthful Ariadne Denisov. But Rose gets more than she bargains for when she is called upon to cure the aged Princess who lives at the top of the Red Staircase, and the frail young Tsarevitch...

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Albion Walk

1982

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In this novel, Gwendoline Butler evokes in full and vivid detail the theatrical scene in London from World War I through the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Albion Walk is the story of Alice May, of her rise from the Werkstatte in Vienna, to her apprenticeship with a couturier in Paris and finally to her emergence as one of the reigning women of English theatre, owner and manager of the Albion. It is the story of her personal as well as her professional life, of the two men for whom she feels a passion as strong as that for her work, and of the one man who tires to destroy her.

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