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|title=Maxwell's Mask

|author=M J Trow

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|pages=288

|publisher=Allison & Busby

|isbn=978-0749081454

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Deena Harrison had always been a problem for Leighford High School. There was the small matter of setting fire to the toilet block when she was only just into double figures. A year later she threw Ollie Wendell down the stairs of the science block. But she had some advantages too. She was a born actress with the voice of an angel, so the headmaster of the time moved heaven, earth and a few Equal Opportunities initiatives to ensure that she stayed in the school. The staff thought that this was all in the past, but in the autumn after her time at Oxford she came back to help out because of a crisis in the drama department. As usual there were problems around Deena - this time people started dying - and Mad Max, Deena's old Head of Sixth Form, was there to investigate.

Good books about civilian investigators are as rare as hen's teeth, but Bookbag can recommend an old novel that's recently been re-issued - [[The Coroner's Pidgin]] by Margery Allingham. If you're interested in the use of psychics in the course of police investigations you might like to try [[Dead Simple]] by Peter James, but it isn't a patch on this book despite having done rather well in the best-seller lists. For another good story set in a school and written by a teacher, you might like to try [[Where the Truth Lies]] by Rosemary Ingham.

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