Edwin Maxim

### Relatives

Unnamed Father, Unnamed Mother, Douglas Maxim (Older Brother), Benjamin Maxim (Younger Brother).

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Wythenshawe Hospital, Wythenshawe, Manchester, England.

## Physical description

### Eye color

Blue.

***Edwin Maxim*** is one of the three major characters within *Bloody Monday To Guts Sunday*. Within the story he is the middle brother of the Maxim Brothers and seems to be higher in the pecking order than Benjamin due to his intelligence and trust from Douglas, regardless of his criminal inexperience.

## **Pre-Book History:**

*Edwin Maxim* was born and grew up in Wythenshawe, Manchester, during a time when the council estate was at its most crime filled.

Growing up, he and his brothers were domestically abused by their father, who died from a reckless lifestyle.

It seems that Edwin did not pursue the criminal career that his two brothers did, as Edwin seems to be very well educated - often called a *Jew* by Benjamin. He also does not have any crimes recorded on his P.N.C. Record in the novel, which further cements his clean past.

Sometime within 2015 the Maxims' mother died of cancer. After this traumatic event, Douglas was able to recruit Edwin to his cause of becoming South American millionaires.

Douglas most likely recruited Edwin due to Jimmy Saturn being out of the picture, as well as Doug's promise to their mother upon her deathbed.

Before the Summer of 2018, Edwin, alongside Douglas, made a gas pipe explode within Strangeways Prison in Manchester and aided their youngest brother, Benjamin, to escape.

## **Appearance & Personality:**

### **Physical Appearance:**

* **Eye Colour -**Dark Blue.
* **Hair Colour -**Dark Brown.
* **Hair Style -**Short, well-kept.
* **Facial Hair -**Goatee.
* **Skin Colour -**White.
* **Height -**6'0" (182.88cm).
* **Weight -**12st (168lbs).
* **Accent -**Mancunian accent.
* **Age (End Of Novel) -**24-years-old.
* **Other Features -**Has glasses, the only Maxim to wear them.

### **Attire & Arsenal:**

Edwin Maxim wears suits similar to his brother Douglas, however, is less flashy with his attire. Although Benjamin is supposed to wear glasses, Ed is the only Maxim Brother to wear them.

Maxim uses a Browning Hi-Power 9mm pistol, the former standard issue sidearm of the British Military. It is believed that Jimmy Saturn was the one who supplied the brothers with these pistols. With Gibraltar being the brother's destination before Brazil, it would be logical that the Brownings were stolen from a British military base in Gibraltar and snuck into England.

### **Personality:**

Although Edwin is a well educated man, it seems he has a racist mindset, as he grows a quick dislike towards Naomi Winters because she is mixed-race. He displays he does not like anybody who is non-white by the comments he shoots her way during her time as a captive, and his lack of remorse when assaulting her.

With Wythenshawe, Moss Side and Longsight being so close together and connected during the 1990s due to the high crime rate, it is most likely that Edwin formed his racist mindset due to the crimes committed by his black and brown neighbours northwards.

Of the brothers, it is may explicitly clear that Edwin is the best at mathematics and coming up with genius ideas to get money quickly.

## **Biography:**

***Warning this section contains spoilers of the novel ahead***,

### **Monday:**

The Maxim Brothers stalk a Scottish mobster and board the same train as him. They proceed to rob the train and steal over £1,000,000 and various expensive jewellery from the passengers. Douglas orchestrates a kidnapping of an employee named Naomi Winters as a keep-safe, whilst Benjamin gets offended by passengers and proceeds to shoot and kill three of them.

The Maxims continue southward with Naomi as their hostage. Edwin suggests they rob from country pubs as they would pay with cash more so than card. To Edwin's annoyance, Douglas and Benjamin go through with a pub robbery. Before this, Benjamin begins to hear things said from Naomi that are rather raunchy and out of place.

Edwin is left babysitting Naomi, who attempts to escape, he beats her up for her failed efforts. Douglas and Benjamin, meanwhile, successfully rob the pub, with Ben shooting one of the patrons.

In a hotel room they had booked where Edwin and Naomi had been, during the night time after the successful heist, they are interrupted by another booker at the hotel, who Ben proceeds to stab to death.

Ben, Ed and Naomi flee to their car, whilst Doug sets the room on fire. The hotel explodes and the Maxims flee into the night.

### **Tuesday:**

The quartet find a second place to stay. Edwin informs his brothers that one more pub heist is required before they can continue onwards down to the Eurotunnel.

Douglas desires to do the job with Benjamin, however, Edwin moans that he thought of the idea and so he should be the one to do at least the last one they plan to commit to. Doug relents and allows this, yet does not like the prospect of Ben being on his own with their female hostage.

The robbery gets underway and seems to be going well, until Ed's inexperience costs him his life, as the owner of the pub shoots and kills him. Doug shoots the manager dead in retaliation and flees with a bag full of money and items they had stolen.

## **P.N.C. Record:**

***Warning this section contains spoilers of the novel ahead***,

**Disclosure & Barring Service**

**England & Wales**

**P.N.C. Record:**

**Date of Creation:** 10/08/2018

## **Trivia:**

* Edwin Maxim was born in the same area as Darryl M. Finch-Ellis.
* Edwin is named after Edwin van der Sar, former goalkeeper and club legend for Manchester United F.C.
* The Maxim surname is named after the Maxim Machine Gun.
* Edwin's codename "Jesse" during the train heist is named after Jesse James, a famous American train robber.
* Edwin's Zodiac sign is a Sagittarius.
* Maxim's favourite alcohol is vodka.
* Ed is a Manchester City F.C. supporter.
* Eddie lives in Sale, a relatively expensive place to live in Manchester, which means he must have had a high paying job before joining Douglas' crime spree.
* Due to clues in the novel, Ed's job may have been an accountant.
* Edwin is the only Maxim to not kill somebody in the novel.
* Unlike his kin, prior to the novel he had a clean criminal record.