Female : Crime Novelist. Married Lionel Butler, Professor of Medieval History at St Andrews, in 1949

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Blackheath, London

Date of Birth : 1922

Pseudonyms : Jennie Melville

Other Work : Taught modern history at Oxford for 8 years

Education : Haberdashers Aske's Hatcham Girls School & Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (History)

1956-1960
Receipt for Murder (1956 Geoffrey Bles) - Inspector Winter book
Dead in a Row (1957 Bles) - Inspector Winter book
The Murdering Kind (1958 Bles) (1964 Roy, US) - Inspector Winter book
The Dull Dead (1958 Bles) (1962 Walker US) - Inspector Winter book
The Interloper (1959 Bles) - Inspector Coffin book
Death Lives Next Door (1960 Bles) (1960 Macmillan US as "Dine & be Dead") - Inspector Coffin book

1961-1970
Make Me a Murderer (1961 Bles) - Inspector Coffin book
[From here on these feature the name coffin in the title]
Coffin for Baby (1963 Bles) (1963 Walker US)
Coffin Waiting (1964 Bles) (1964 Walker)
Coffin in Malta (1964 Bles) (1965 Walker)
A Nameless Coffin (1966 Bles) (1967 Walker)
Coffin Following (1968 Bles)
Coffin's Dark Number (1969 Bles)
A Coffin from the Past (1970 Bles)

1971-1980
A Coffin for Pandora (1973 Macmillan) (1974 Coward-McCann as "Sarsen Place")
A Coffin for the Canary (1974 Macmillan) (1974 Coward US as "Olivia")
The Vesey Inheritance (1975 Coward US) (1976 Macmillan)
The Brides of Friedberg (1977 Macmillan) (1977 Coward US as "Meadowsweet")
The Red Staircase (1979 Coward US) (1980 Collins)

1981-1990
Albion Walk (1982 Coward US) (1983 Collins as "Cavalcade")
Coffin on the Water (1986 Collins) (1989 St Martin's Press)
Coffin in Fashion (1987 Collins) (1990 St Martin's)
Coffin Underground (1988 Collins) (1989 St Martin's)
Coffin in the Black Museum (1989 Collins) (1990 St Martin's as "Coffin in the Museum of Crime")
Coffin and the Paper Man (1990 Collins) (1991 St Martin's)

Since 1991
Coffin on Murder Street (1991 Collins) (1991 St Martin's)
Cracking Open a Coffin (1992 Collins) (1993 St Martin's)
A Coffin for Charley (1993 Collins)
A Dark Coffin (1995 Harper Collins)
A Double Coffin (1995 Harper Collins £14.99)
Butterfly (1996 Severn House £16.99)
Coffin's Game (1997 Harper Collins £14.99)
Let There be Love (1997 Severn House £16.99)
A Grave Coffin (1998 Harper Collins £15.99)
Coffin's Ghost (1999 Harper Collins £16.99)
A Bold Coffin (2000 Harper Collins)

AS JENNIE MELVILLE
Charmian Daniels Series
Come Home and be Killed (1962 Michael Joseph) (1964 British Book Centre US)
Burning is a Substitute for Loving (1963 Michael Joseph) (1964 British Book Centre)
Murderers' Houses (1964 Michael Joseph)
There Lies Your Love (1965 Michael Joseph)
A Different Kind of Summer (1967 Hodder & Stoughton)
A New Kind of Killer, An Old Kind of Death (1970 Hodder & Stoughton)
(1971 McKay US as "A New Kind of Killer")
Murder has a Pretty Face (1981 Macmillan) (1989 St Martin's Press)
Windsor Red (1988 Macmillan) (1988 St Martin's Press)
A Cure for Dying (1989 Macmillan) (1990 St Martin's Press as "Making Good Blood")
Footsteps in the Blood (1990 Macmillan)
Dead Set (1992 Macmillan) (1993 St Martin's Press)
Whoever Has the Heart (1993 Macmillan)
The Morbid Kitchen (1995 Macmillan)
The Woman who was Not There (1996 Macmillan £15.99)
Revengeful Death (1997 Macmillan £15.99)
Stone Dead (1998 Macmillan £16.99)
Dead Again (2000 Macmillan £16.99)

Othe Crime Fiction
The Hunter in the Shadows (1969 Hodder & Stoughton) (1970 McKay US)
The Summer Assassin (1971 Hodder & stoughton)
Listen to the Children (1986 Macmillan)
Death in the Garden (1987 Macmillan) (1989 St Martin's as "Murder in the Garden")
Baby Drop (1994 Macmillan)

Other Fiction
Nell Alone (1966 Michael Joseph)
Ironwood (1972 Hodder & Stoughton) (1972 McKay US)
Nun's Castle (1973 McKay) (1974 Hodder & Stoughton)
Raven's Forge (1975 Macmillan) (1975 McKay)
Dragon's Eye (1976 Simon & Schuster) (1977 Macmillan)
Axwater (1978 Macmillan) (1978 Simon & Schuster as "Tarot's Tower")
The Painted Castle (1982 Macmillan)
The Hand of Glass (1983 Macmillan)