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Gwendoline Butler (b. 1922, South London) is a writer of mystery fiction credited for inventing the "woman's police procedural" and known for her series of Inspector John Coffin novels. She has also published a series featuring female detective Charmian Daniels under the pseudonym Jennie Melville. Butler read history at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and later lectured there; her husband, the historian Lionel Butler, Fellow of All Souls and Principal of Royal Holloway College, died in 1992.

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