Carole Matthews is one of the bestselling women's fiction writers around. Crime & Mystery
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The Whitsun half term is usually a time for history teacher Peter Maxwell to put his feet up, drop his guard and oil his bike chain. But not this time. Maxwell's brief idyll is cut short by a desperate call for help from an old school friend, Cambridge lecturer John Irving, who is acting as historical advisor to a film company making a bodice-ripper. They need military know- how and Irving hasn't a clue. But Maxwell's difficulties have only just begun. Filming is interrupted when the director is shot dead during a skirmish on the beach. The gun that did the killing was fired by one of Maxwell's sixth formers earning a few bob as an extra, and Maxwell had given the order to fire . . .Related Items
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