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Storyline/synopsis: The derelict house on the edge of the sleepy seaside town was a haven for courting couples, down-and-outs - and someone with altogether more sinister intentions. It was there that they found the corpse of seventeen--year-old Jenny Hyde. She'd been strangled. Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell didn't have to become involved at all. But one of his pupils had been murdered and Maxwell took it personally. His efforts to discover the truth about Jenny's death land the genial head of Sixth in deeper troule than he could ever have thought possible... |
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Storyline/synopsis: Peter Maxwell didn't want to attend the GNVQ course. He didn't want to get mixed up in murder either-but perhaps it was all part of death's rich tapestry. And while a disparate gathering of teachers was breaking ice upstairs at the Carnforth Centre, someone else was in the basement - breaking skulls. But what the killer couldn't have foreseen was that one of the victims was an old flame of Maxwell's. So now, it was personal. And when 'Mad Max' takes something personally, he doesn't get madder, he gets results |
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Storyline/synopsis: Meticulously organised and judiciously scheduled to coincide with the dreaded Chemistry test, the school trip to the Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) had been Peter Maxwell's idea. But Maxwell himself, grievously afflicted with a vicious dose of flu, was forced to stay behind. And so it was that fifty chattering, squealing, excited pupils set off with only Maxwell's ineffectual Deputy and the inexperienced NQT Alice Goode to keep control. Not everyone was destined to return from the happy outing. For in the darkened cinema complex of MOMI, two members of the party disappear without trace. As the instigator of the doomed trip, Maxwell feels personally responsible for the fate of the missing pair and sets out to discover what happened to Alice Goode and sixth form pupil Ronnie Parsons. His search drags him into a world far removed from the essay crises and cosy staff room banter of Leighford High. Sucked into the sleazy and sinister world of Soho and the porn industry, Maxwell finds himself ensnared in a mesh of blackmail, vice - and murder |
1998, Constable, hbk Or try these editions (hover mouse over links to view details) |
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Storyline/synopsis: When Peter Maxwell agrees to act as historical adviser to a film company making a bodice-ripper on the south coast, he discovers that the knives-out policies of Leighford High are as nothing to the cut-throat world of television production. But his difficulties have only just begun. Filming is interrupted when the director is shot dead during a skirmish on the beach. The gun that did the killing was fired by Giles Sparrow, one of Maxwell's Sixth Formers earning a few bob as an extra. |
Looking for a 1st Edition? Try this 1999 hardback listing: 1999, NEL, pbk |
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Storyline/synopsis: Peter "Mad Max" Maxwell's two precocious nieces insist he takes them to a theme park. While riding the Wild Water, a passenger is killed in the float ahead, and Maxwell and the girl's become eye-witnesses to murder. The dead man was an accountant working with CHARTS, a charity organisation sponsoring Leighford High School where Maxwell works. Mad Max delves into CHARTS and begins to unearth a complex web of murky secrets. The corpses multiply as Maxwell nears the end of his search for truth -but will one of them be his own niece...? |
Looking for a 1st Edition? Try here: 2000, New English Library, hbk 2000, New English Library, pbk 2001, Soundings, Audiobook |
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Storyline/synopsis: Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell is celebrating the Millennium. Not the one everybody else celebrated-that was last year. His is the mathematically and historically correct version-31st December 2000. Just about to savour his umpteenth Southern Comfort, he is interrupted by the doorbell. It's no New Year reveller, however, but the body of an old woman who, on a night of unseasonal mildness, has frozen to death. Rattled by the discovery of a corpse on his own doorstep, Maxwell decides to investigate. But when others start falling ill, hysteria grips the area. The local health authorities are at a loss to explain the symptoms-or why all the victims are elderly and live alone. At the dawn of the 21st century, Maxwell seems to have stumbled onto something every rational soul would think had been buried with the past: witchcraft |
Looking for a 1st Edition? Try this one: 2000: Hodder & Stoughton, hbk Or try the Hodder and Stoughton 2001 paperback listing |
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Storyline/synopsis In the year Peter Maxwell left school, Winston Churchill died and Mary Whitehouse began to clean up TV. Rhodesia broke with Britain, somebody built the Post Office Tower in London and the end of civilisation began when they gave the MBE to the Beatles. Thirty-seven years later on, as Peter Maxwell's old school closes down, Maxwell attends a reunion of the class of '65 at a swish hotel in the Midlands. But through the endless reminiscences and schoolboy banter, the seething tensions of the school years surface in unlikely ways. All is not as it seems among Maxwell's old chums and at the end of the reunion weekend, a man is dead, hanging from the bell rope of the old school. When a second violent death occurs, Maxwell finds himself in the midst of a murder investigation. But as he sets out to uncover the secret that has been lurking under his nose all those years, he begins to suspect that he may well be on the murderer's list for killing number three. Maxwell's reunion is the seventh intriguing mystery in M. J. Trow's highly-acclaimed series featuring the irascible Head of Sixth and memorably unlikely sleuth, Peter 'Max Max' Maxwell. Audiobook format:
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Looking for a 1st UK Edition? Try this Amazon listing: 2002, Hodder and Stoughton, pbk Click Here For Maxwell's Reunion: Audiobook Format on Amazon |
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Storyline/synopsis: During a two-week staff exchange scheme, Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell swaps the delights of Leighford High for the more sophisticated charms of local private school, Grimmonds. This is a school where the teachers wear gowns, play interhouse rugby, join debating societies and fencing lessons. It's a far cry from his familiar comprehensive - Grimmods is steeped in tradition and dripping with money. But within a day of stepping through the imposing school gates, Maxwell has yet again stumbled upon an unnatural death. One of the Housemasters has fallen from the school roof - but did he jump or was he pushed? Two days later another teacher is found floating in the lake and this time it's definitely murder. As the pack of journalists at the gates grows and parents start removing their children from the school, the Headmaster has his work cut out to protect Grimmonds' reputation. And when DS Jacquie Carpenter, Maxwell's girlfriend, gets assigned to the case he finds himself caught up in a complex police investigation and a tangled web of secrets. |
2000, Allison & Busby, hbk 2003, Allison & Busby, pbk |
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Storyline/synopsis: [from front dj flap]: When Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell took his kids from Leighford High on an archaeological dig, all should have been learning and fun. The professionals were very excited-was the grave they had found that of Alfred the Great? No, because the corpse was not Saxon and it wasn't a king, but an altogether more recent murder. No sooner has the first body been found than another, a policeman on the case is found dead at the wheel of his car. What knowledge did he possess that led to his death? And does his colleague, Maxwell's partnerJacquie Carpenter unwittingly have the same information? Maxwell locks horns with the great and not so good in a vicious world of skulduggery, academic back-biting and religious mania which can only end in murder... |
2004, Allison & Busby, hbk Or try the Allison & Busby 2005 paperback listing Or try the Hardcover 2007 Large Print edition |
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Storyline/synopsis: Deena Harrison was one of Leighford High School's "characters" - setting fire to the toilet block and throwing boys down stairs. But she had the voice of an angel and could act the skin off a rice pudding, so Mr. Diamond, the Headteacher, did everything he could to keep her on. The autumn she came down from Oxford, there was something of a crisis in the Drama department at Leighford High. Mrs Carmichael was in danger of losing her baby and the Little Shop of Horrors was in danger of closing down. So Deena comes back to help out. And people start dying...just tragic accidents of course-loose cables, carelessly placed ladders-simple health and safety issues surely? DCI Henry Hall gets to know the Arquebus Theatre quite well, with murder treading the boards. And then Deena's old Head of Sixth Form stumbles into the spotlight...the return of Mad Max |
2007, Allison & Busby, pbk, new ed. 2005, Allison & Busby, hbk |
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