Maxwell's Crossing

Peter Maxwell is torn between his usual mild xenophobia and his love of the movies when his head of department Paul Moss takes part in a cultural exchange with a family from LA - Hollywood, or as near as makes no difference. Their impact on Leighford is mixed, from Hector Gold, the teacher of the extended family group, being unexpectedly competent to Jeff O'Malley, his father-in-law, being rather good at cards, cheating and mild intimidation.

Soon, members of the card-school are dying and with Nolan's scary headteacher Mrs Whatmough on his back, Maxwell is soon up to his elbows in trans-Atlantic phone calls and dodgy dealing in all senses of the word. Before they know it, the Maxwells are on their way to Hollywood - Metternich having been enticed into the cat basket for the journey of a lifetime - on an exchange of their own. Will either the Maxwell family - or America - ever be the same again?

Book Author

M .J.Trow bills himself in many of his books as the only Welshman who cannot sing or play rugby. A military historian by training, graduating from King’s College, London and Cambridge, he has spent most years of his life at the chalk face of comprehensive schools which has given him the inspiration for his latest fictional detective Peter ‘Mad Max’ Maxwell. The first detective series appeared in 1985 in the form of Inspector Lestrade, late of the Conan Doyle canon and after sixteen hilarious, bloody and intriguing outings, the world’s second greatest detective hung ...
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