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Coffin and the Paper Man

By: Gwendoline Butler
Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
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Following the brutal stabbing of a young girl, John Coffin, chief commander of the Docklands district, receives a series of notes from "the Paper Man" promising more bodies if the young girl's killer isn't caught. As the case goes unsolved, more bodies turn up, and now Coffin must find two killers.

©1990 Gwendoline Butler (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Mystery Scary

Editor reviews

A young girl is beaten, raped, and stabbed prior to providing a whispered, enigmatic hint identifying her killer and setting in motion another of Crime Writer Association Silver Dagger winner Gwendoline Butler’s masterfully plotted police procedurals featuring Chief Commander John Coffin. Nigel Carrington highlights the increasing tension as anonymous notes threaten vengeance, and first one, then another, and another fall victim to a killer (or killers) ravaging the gentrifying neighborhood of Dockside, London. A family is destroyed. A neighborhood is terrorized and, again, Coffin is forced to struggle to cast light on the darkest shade in the range of human psychology.
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Read them again, if you have not enjoy a top rate English crime writing at its best

If you read these books back in the day

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Good short listen, a bit out of date by today's standards, but it was written a long time ago now. Worth downloading though.

Good short listen

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I wish I could get the rest of this book free 😪 can anyone help

lovely book

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Wonderful writing. Wonderful performance. To those saying it is dated, it is only dated in the sense that the writing is so very very good. It's been a long time since I've listened to something so well-written.

Excellent

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A reasonable plot and quite enjoyable but, especially with regard to police procedures, now somewhat dated.

Dated

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