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The Cato Street Conspiracy. Gripping reconstruction of the plot to assassinate the British prime minister and cabinet in 1820 Explores the characters, motives and radical politics of the plotters Sets the conspiracy in the wider context of Britain after the Napoleonic Wars

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Book seven in the Mad Max series. 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 Business to say goodbye for ever. But some of the goodbyes are more permanent than others, particularly when one of their number is found hanging from the bell rope i...

Book eight in the Mad Max series. As part of a two-week staff exchange scheme, Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell is swapping the delights of Leighford High for the altogether more sophisticated charms of local private school, Grimonds. This is a school where the teachers wear gowns, a school with inter-house rugby, debating societies and fencing lessons. It's a far cry from his familiar comprehensive - Grimonds is steeped in tradition and dripping with ...

Another grisly unsolved Victorian multiple murder case for the author of Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer.

Book six in the Mad Max series. 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 his Southern Comfort. A knock on the door could be Jacquie Carpenter, released from night shift earlier than expected, but instead of a warm girl Maxwell opens his door ...

Book five in the Mad Max series. Peter Maxwell is looking after his nieces for the Whit half term and against his better judgement, he takes them to a theme park. While riding, white-knuckled, on the Wild Water, a passenger is killed in the float ahead and Maxwell and the girls become eyewitnesses to murder. The dead man is an accountant, working for a charity which sponsors Leighford High School. Delving further, it soon becomes clear to Maxw...

Book four in the Mad Max series. 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 much the same as the world of education - full of incompetents and backstabbers. Unfortunately, shooting becomes all too literal when the director takes a musket ball to ...

Book two in the Mad Max series. Peter Maxwell didn't want to attend the GNVQ course. He didn't want to get mixed up in murder either - but perhaps it was all part of death's rich tapestry. And while a disparate gathering of teachers was breaking ice upstairs at the Carnforth Centre, someone else was in the basement - breaking skulls. But what the killer couldn't have foreseen was that Peter Maxwell has a habit of taking things like this person...

The disappearance of two boys during the summer of 1483 has never been satisfactorily explained. They were Edward, Prince of Wales, nearly thirteen at the time, and his brother, Richard of York, nearly ten.

Book three in the Mad Max series. The school outing to the Museum of the Moving Image is not an unqualified success. For in the darkened cinema complex of MOMI two members of the party disappear without trace... As the instigator of the doomed trip, Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell feels personally responsible for the fate of the missing teacher, Alice Goode, and sixth form pupil, Ronnie Parsons. His search for the missing pair drags him into a world f...

Book one in the Mad Max series. 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 Maxwell - 'Mad Max' - widower, film buff, golden-hearted cynic, and bow-tied, eccentric teacher under suspension and suspicion. Maxwell didn't have to become involved at a...

Book eighteen in the Mad Max series. Maxwell's back and murder comes to sleepy Leighford. Are those two things connected? Well, yes and no. Teenaged girls are being picked up on the seafront and two of them are found dead. She has barely set foot on her old patch and DI Jacquie Carpenter-Maxwell is up to her jet-lagged neck in somebody else's tragedy. So is her husband because the prime suspect is Bernard Ryan, Deputy Head at Leighford High an...

Book nineteen in the Mad Max series. 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, sweeping away the cobwebs of educational mediocrity and she sweeps good people along the way. And the odd thing about her? She has no past. And within days of her arrival, two local women have no future, one is found dead in a car ...

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