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A historical journey in pursuit of the history, legend and lore of vampires. Where do they come from? Why do they have so much appeal today? As Twilight hits the book charts and billboards, and True Blood is on TV there are vampires in downtown clubs and never has it been more fashionable to be pale. M J Trow looks at the story of vampires and charts its origins a long way from the shopping mall in the story of the warrior prince, Vlad of Wall...

Dismembered corpses are discovered scattered along the banks of the river Thames, a calculating clinical multiple murderer is on the loose, and the London police have no inkling of the killer's identity - and, more than a century later, they still don't. In this, M.J. Trow's latest reinvestigation of a bizarre and brutal serial killing, he delves deep into the appalling facts of the case, into the futile police investigations, and into the dar...

Being quite the expert in solving murders, Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell, thinks there's more than meets the eye when a local poker player is found dead... 'Top marks for the scholarly sleuth' "Yorkshire Post

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. Even worse, the Year Seven trip to the Isle of Wight takes a turn for the worse when someone goes missing.

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Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell has a disaster on his hands when during the process to hire a new assistant head teacher guests and staff alike become seriously ill. Certain fingers are pointing at Maxwell and it's up to him to solve the mystery. But is he in danger himself?

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With disturbing insights into the dark side of the history of the Isle of Wight, this title presents in-depth reconstructions of notorious murders and other remarkable cases.

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Christopher Marlowe investigates a school for exiled Catholic priests in the fourth of this intriguing historical mystery series.

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-drenched isle of Menorca, and whilst the good old British weather cant hold a candle to the Menorcan sun, Juanita doesnt appear to mind a bit. She seems perfectly happy in the sleepy little seaside town,...

July, 1868. On receiving a commission to look into the suspicious death of Lafayette Baker, Head of the US National Detective Police, private investigators Matthew Grand and James Batchelor leave London for Washington DC, where they find a country still scarred by the Civil War, and unearth a surprising number of suspects who wanted Baker dead.

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Lestrade's detectives at Scotland Yard have promised him that 1910 is going to be a peaceful year. Unfortunately, it doesn't work out that way. His daughter, Emma, brings him news of a tragic boating accident and he is soon up to his neck in a series of vicious murders, including that of a man hanged in a church belltower, of a cross-channel swimmer, and his old sparring partner, Dr Watson.Anarchists threaten the peace of Europe and the whole ...

Britain has entered the twentieth century. Queen Victoria is dead and the Boer War rages on. Inspector Lestrade is called upon to investigate the brutal death of Ralph Childers MP in the first of a series of perplexing murders which clearly has a link with politics. Is someone trying to destroy the government? And who is responsible? Was it the Fenians who placed a bomb in the Palace of Westminster? Or have the Suffragettes decided on a more d...

Sholto Lestrade had never smelled the tangle o' the Isles before Arthur, Duke of Connaught, put him on the trail to the Highlands. Murder is afoot among the footmen of the Royal Household - a servant girl has been brutally slaughtered.Ineptly disguised as a schoolmaster in his bowler and Donegal, the intrepid Superintendent is impelled by a villainous web of conspiracy to the Isle of Skye by way of Balmoral.With the skirl of pipes in his ears,...

Recovering from a broken leg after his ignominious fall from the Titanic, Lestrade should have had a peaceful time convalescing. But an attempt on the life of his future father-in-law makes him realise that a policeman is never really off duty. What is particularly puzzling is the arrival of a letter which simply reads 'Four for the Gospel Makers', and it isn't the first Lestrade has been sent. So begins one of Sholto Lestrade's most mystifyin...

Knee deep in murder, in his forty-third year. Sholto Lestrade wouldn't have it any other way. The first victim in a series of bizarre killings is a Captain of the Life Guards, who is found in the Thames at Shadwell Stair, with a war medal wedged between his teeth. Lestrade's next summons is to the underground caves at Wookey Hole where the demise of an Egyptologist - a scarab clamped between his molars - prompts the question: can a man dead fo...