Maxwell's match
By: by M.J. Trow
Series: A Peter Maxwell mystery
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780750529129
Subjects: Peter Maxwell (Fictitious character); Fiction; Teachers
Description: On a two-week staff exchange, Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell leaves behind his familiar comprehensive for the altogether more sophisticated charms of Grimond's, a private school steeped in tradition and money, but within a day of his arrival Maxwell has yet again stumbled upon a suspicious unnatural death. Two days later another teacher is dead, and this time it's definitely murder. With journalists besieging the school and parents in a panic, the Headmaster is scrambling to preserve Grimonds' reputation. When Maxwell's girlfriend, DS Jacquie Carpenter gets assigned to the case he soon finds himself involved in a complex investigation.
Notes: Originally published: London: Allison & Busby, 2002.