Peter Maxwell — by M.J. Trow

• Jul-1995
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Two men had the job of tracing seventeen-year-old Jenny Hyde's killer. One was Chief Inspector Henry Hall, an elitist cop of the old school, who was driving in one direction only - to the top. It was his job. His territory. The other was Peter Maxwel...

• 1995
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Peter Maxwell may be a dinosaur to his colleagues and a crazy enigma to his students -- although most of them think an enigma is one of those mad Australian hedgehogs that lay eggs. But even he was young once and he is thrilled and slightly disturb...

• Feb-1998
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Ask any teacher what they dread most and they will say, to a man -- or woman: 'school trips'. Unusually, Peter Maxwell is looking forward to this one, and with good reason -- it is to his spiritual home, the Museum of the Moving Image. Sadly, the...

• Feb-1999
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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. Dreams of becoming the next Spielberg soon founder when he discovers that the world of film is pretty muc...

• Jan-2000
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Maxwell's Millennium is not quite like other people's -- for a start, it is a year later. After much quibbling with the maths department, everyone calls it an honourable draw and he celebrates as only he can: with his cat, his model soldiers, and h...

• Jan-2000
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It's a busman's holiday for Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell, saddled with two precocious nieces who insist he takes them to a theme park. While riding, white-knuckled, the Wild Water, a passenger is killed in the float ahead, and Maxwell and the girls become...

• Jan-2001
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Unbelievable as it seems to all the Old Boys, Maxwell's school is about to be turned into a conference centre -- Halliards is to be no more. Some of his schoolfellows can't let the moment pass and so they gather together, the Year of Mind Your Own ...

• Jul-2003
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On a two-week staff exchange, Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell leaves behind his familiar local comprehensive school for the altogether more sophisticated charms of Grimonds, a private academy steeped in tradition and money. But something is amiss here - with...

• Oct-2003
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There comes a time in every teacher's life when he must face his Nemesis -- the four-yearly Ofsted Inspection. The immediate bête noire of Head of Sixth Form, Peter Maxwell, is the attractive and vivacious Sally Meninger. Out on the town one night t...

• Apr-2005
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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 no...

• Apr-2007
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One of Leighford High School's 'characters', Deena Harrison had a habit of causing trouble. But when she returns to her school years later to help out in the drama department, the cast suddenly starts to drop dead. Are the seemingly tragic coincidenc...

• Jul-2007
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With girlfriend DS Jacquie Carpenter back at work and little baby Nolan rapidly growing into a feisty toddler, Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell, Head of Sixth Form at Leighford High, decides to hire an au pair. The exotic Juanita Reyes hails from the sun-dren...

• Apr-2008
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Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell is a very busy man; as Head of Sixth Form at Leighford High he does his best to resist Ofsted imperatives and mark GCSE coursework, whilst trying to cram as much History as possible into the reluctant heads of Nine Eff Gee and...

• Feb-2009
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With the beginning of a new school year under way, Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell prepares to get stuck into his curricular routine and is looking forward to his forthcoming wedding to fiancée DS Jacquie Carpenter. The immediate task in hand for senior sta...

• Mar-2010
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Leighford High's Head of Sixth Form, Peter Maxwell, has a complete aversion to technology. Computers and mobile phones, texts and emails; these are not things that 'dinosaur' Mad Max wants to know about. However, it soon becomes of vital importance t...

• May-2011
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Having had his retirement snatched from him by malfunctioning technology, Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell finds himself facing yet another new year at Leighford High School. After having her hopes of a dedicated house-husband dashed, his wife, Jacquie, is fu...

• Apr-2012
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At Leighford High, Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell is acting Head of History whilst Peter Moss partakes in an American exchange. His counterpart is Hector Gold, accompanied to Leighford by his eccentric family. In particular, Hector's father-in-law, Jeff O'M...

• Apr-2014
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"I loved the book. Funny and a very relaxing read."
Archana Aggarwal - Educator

MAXWELL'S BACK, AS MURDER COMES TO SLEEPY LEIGHFORD.

Are the two things connected? Well, yes and no. Teenage girls are being picked up on the seafro...

• Sep-2015
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"What a great book... I highly recommend it."
Netgalley

The end of civilization, as Peter Maxwell knows it, is just around the corner. It comes in the form of Fiona Braymarr, the new superhead of Leighford Academy. She is a new broom, sw...

• Sep-2020
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Peter Maxwell is looking forward to a nice quiet summer, with perhaps a little light gardening if necessary - as long as the plants don't grow over the door and trap them all inside, it won't be necessary. But, as so often in Maxwell's life, Mrs Trou...

• Jun-2022
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Book twenty-one in the Mad Max series.When asked about when it all began, Peter Maxwell would always say that it was at breakfast one day, when his son said, 'It says in the news that bats are giving people colds.' At that point, that was all anyone ...

• Apr-2025
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An unputdownable cozy mystery with a touch of wry English humour.'Cleverly conceived and amusingly executed.' The Sunday TimesMeet Peter Maxwell: film buff, golden-hearted cynic, bow-tied eccentric teacher . . . and reluctant amateur sleuth.A reality...