Maxwell's Mask

Deena Harrison was one of Leighford High School’s ‘characters’. She set fire to the toilet block when she was eleven, threw Ollie Wendell down the Science lab stairs soon after her twelfth birthday. But she had the voice of an angel and could act the skin off a rice pudding, so Mr Diamond, the Headteacher, invoked all sorts of inclusion clauses and EU equal opportunities initiatives and kept 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 came back – just to help out. And people started dying. Oh, just tragic accidents of course – loose cables, carelessly placed ladders. Just minor health and safety issues, really. Somebody was killing the cast and it wasn’t Audrey, the man-eating plant.

DCI Henry Hall got to know the Arquebus Theatre quite well that summer. With his favourite DS, Jacquie Carpenter, expecting her own baby and with murder treading the boards, Hall had his hands full. Especially when Deena’s old Head of Sixth Form stumbled into the spotlight.

You see, Deena’s old Head of Sixth Form had a habit of solving murders …

Mad Max is on his bike.

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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