M. J. Trow, Author Regnery Publishing $19.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-89526-311-7
Here's an unlikely novel: an amusing mystery about the Jack the Ripper murders. Like the other Lestrade books (Brigade, etc.), this one is permeated with sharp historical detail, delightful humor and wordplay, plus a large gallery of characters....
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M. J. Trow, Author Gateway Editions $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-89526-343-8
Dry neo-Wodehousian wit runs through this bold revisionist mystery, the first in a successful British series which Gateway is publishing to launch its first foray into mysteries. Trow's Sherlock Holmes is a sad, cocaine-addled doofus; Dr. Watson is...
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M. J. Trow, Author Gateway Editions $19.95 (219p) ISBN 978-0-89526-342-1
Cleverly plotted and fast paced, this exciting tale brings back Trow's incarnation of Conan Doyle's Sholto Lestrade (The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade; Forecasts, Aug. 3), showing him to be a shrewd, intelligent and formidable investigator. In...
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M. J. Trow, Author Regnery Publishing $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-89526-312-4
Among the charms of Trow's Lestrade novels (Lestrade and the Ripper, Forecasts, July 5) are tight historical detail, an unusual mix of slapstick and literate humor, and unpredictable plots. In this fifth of the series, it is 1908, and against a...
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M. J. Trow, Author Gateway Editions $19.95 (237p) ISBN 978-0-89526-288-2
Mystery fans may recall Inspector Lestrade as a decidedly inferior policeman who appears in the Holmes canon. Trow's Lestrade is all too human but more competent than Conan Doyle's. This 11th entry in Trow's Lestrade series provides a good time and...
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M. J. Trow, Author Gateway Editions $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-89526-268-4
Trow has made a fine art of taking Conan Doyle's much maligned Inspector Sholto Lestrade and making him the protagonist of a witty series. In the spirited, albeit corny opening scene to his latest adveture, the accident-prone Lestrade survives a...
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M. J. Trow, Author Gateway Editions $19.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-89526-267-7
British history teacher Trow clearly enjoys writing his period mysteries about the Scotland Yard inspector Sholto Lestrade; his latest (after Lestrade and the Brother of Death, Forecasts, Oct. 4) is stuffed with enough broad humor, bad puns and...
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M. J. Trow, Author Gateway Editions $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-89526-289-9
At the start of this 10th volume in the Lestrade Mystery series, a reporter visiting Scotland Yard notices a sepia photo of an assistant police commissioner, Major Sir E.F. Wodehouse, whose vexed expression seems to deny ""knowledge of anyone called
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M. J. Trow, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-312-13123-4
A deeply cynical view of modern British schools informs this absorbing series launch, which pits a teacher who prides himself on his eccentricity against a killer, the police and the educational establishment. After 17-year-old Jennifer Hyde is...
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M.J. Trow. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-78029-075-1
Trow’s seventh whodunit featuring playwright and intelligencer Kit Marlowe (after 2014’s Traitor’s Storm) opens on a stirring note with the siege of Malta in 1565, then flashes forward 24 years to Canterbury, England, where Kit is on a family visit.
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