A Coffin For Pandora
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In the shadowy, tension-laden world of mid-twentieth-century crime fiction, Gwendoline Butler's A Coffin for Pandora is a masterfully constructed mystery that plunges its readers into a web of secrets, danger, and intrigue. The novel centres on a cast of richly drawn characters whose lives intersect in increasingly sinister ways, as a series of disturbing events uncovers the dark undercurrents lurking beneath an outwardly respectable world. Butler, working here under her own name rather than her pen name Jennie Melville, chronicles a tightly woven plot that keeps the reader perpetually off-balance, each revelation more unsettling than the last. Butler's prose is elegant yet pointed, wielding atmosphere and psychological tension with the precision of a seasoned craftsperson. A distinguished figure in British crime writing, she is celebrated for her John Coffin series, and this entry demonstrates precisely why — her ability to construct a narrative that is simultaneously a gripping thriller and a perceptive study of human nature. A Coffin for Pandora stands as a compelling testament to Butler's enduring place in the canon of British detective fiction, leaving the reader to wonder whether any mystery — once opened, like Pandora's box itself — can ever truly be closed.
Author: Gwendoline Butler
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Macmillan
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In the shadowy, tension-laden world of mid-twentieth-century crime fiction, Gwendoline Butler's A Coffin for Pandora is a masterfully constructed mystery that plunges its readers into a web of secrets, danger, and intrigue. The novel centres on a cast of richly drawn characters whose lives intersect in increasingly sinister ways, as a series of disturbing events uncovers the dark undercurrents lurking beneath an outwardly respectable world. Butler, working here under her own name rather than her pen name Jennie Melville, chronicles a tightly woven plot that keeps the reader perpetually off-balance, each revelation more unsettling than the last. Butler's prose is elegant yet pointed, wielding atmosphere and psychological tension with the precision of a seasoned craftsperson. A distinguished figure in British crime writing, she is celebrated for her John Coffin series, and this entry demonstrates precisely why — her ability to construct a narrative that is simultaneously a gripping thriller and a perceptive study of human nature. A Coffin for Pandora stands as a compelling testament to Butler's enduring place in the canon of British detective fiction, leaving the reader to wonder whether any mystery — once opened, like Pandora's box itself — can ever truly be closed.