M. J. Trow

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....

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....

Peter Maxwell is delighted when an old college friend asks him to be the historical adviser on a film being made on the coast near Leighford....

When the spread-eagled body of one of her students is discovered in her rented room shortly after attending one of her lectures, Dr. Margaret Murray is disinclined to accept the official verdict of suicide and is determined to find out how and why the girl really died....

There comes a time in every teacher's life when he must face his nemesis - the Ofsted Inspection. On the third day, with the atmosphere at Leighford High decidedly fraught, one of the Inspectors is found stabbed to death....

April 1865. Having been an eyewitness to the assassination of President Lincoln, Matthew Grand, a former captain of the 3rd Cavalry of the Potomac, has come to London....

The position of Assistant Headteacher has become available at Leighford High, but Peter "Mad Max" Maxwell won't be applying. He has his hands full juggling his beloved Sixth Form....

The young Christopher Marlowe abandons his Cambridge studies to join Lord Strange's men, a group of travelling players....

A reality TV crew descends on Leighford High . . . and Head of Sixth Form Peter Maxwell braces for disaster - but not murder. The cameras pry into every corner of the school, exposing secrets better left buried.

Having had his retirement snatched from him by malfunctioning technology, Peter “Mad Max” Maxwell finds himself facing yet another year at Leighford High School....

Cambridge, 1583....

The end of civilisation, as Peter Maxwell knows it, is just around the corner. It comes in the form of Fiona Braymarr, the new superhead....

The madness begins when Captain Orange and his three nieces are killed in a carriage accident. The only clues?....

The devil is loose in Leighford - or at least someone is trying to make it look as though he is....

When Peter Maxwell attends a school reunion of the class of '65, all is not as it seems among his old chums....

Maxwell is anticipating a quiet summer, with perhaps some light gardening if necessary - but, as often is the case, Mrs Troubridge happens and a day out for her and her special friend, Mrs Getty, takes Maxwell and Nolan to Haledown House and into a web of intrigue and death....

Their discovery of a body buried in the sand dunes sets in motion a chain of events that only the redoubtable Mad Max can break....

While riding the Wild Water, a man is killed in the float ahead, and Max and the girls become witnesses to murder....

England in 1920 is a land fit for heroes. So why is one of those heroes found dead in a dingy London hotel? And why does his war record show that he has been missing for three years? Find out....

With girlfriend DS Jacquie Carpenter back at work, and baby Nolan rapidly growing into a feisty toddler, Peter "Mad Max" Maxwell, head of Sixth Form at Leightford High, hires an au pair....