Maxwell's Retirement

It is a well-known fact, wherever old Leighford Hyenas gather, that Peter Maxwell is a dinosaur. They are not sure how old he is, but they all agree that anyone who can remember so far back must be really old.

But dinosaurs evolve or die and now Peter Maxwell is joining the technological revolution, if just a touch late in the day. He can now register a class electronically. He can make calls on a mobile phone, receive texts but not send them.

But, all this notwithstanding, he is not the natural person to whom the Sixth Form turn when their phones start receiving scary texts, when threats appear on their laptops overnight. Fortunately, they know who to call – DS Jacquie Carpenter-Maxwell is not only computer literate but she is Maxwell’s wife. So they confront her in a body at Leighford Nick and she does her best to help them and calm them down. But on their way home, two of the girls go missing, leaving just their mobile phones behind on the back seat of a bus.

Then the messages begin, sent to Maxwell on his mobile, his home phone, his school laptop and his home pc. Maxwell’s belief that history will always repeat itself seems an anachronism in the face of the power of the chatroom and the text. Can he catch up with technology quickly enough to save the girls in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse?

Then a body is found at a paintball wargames site and Maxwell feels the ground grow more familiar under his feet – but how is this murder connected to the missing girls? Will History solve the mystery?

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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