Fiction
Trow has written over 25 fiction books, in two main series:
- 'Inspector Lestrade' books, based on the character from the Sherlock Holmes stories.
- 'Peter Maxwell', featuring a teacher and amateur sleuth.
Non-fiction
- Let Him Have It, Chris (1990), on which the film Let Him Have It was based
- , on the August Sangret case
- The Many Faces of Jack the Ripper (1997)
- Who Killed Kit Marlowe?: a Contract to Murder in Elizabethan England (2001)
- Vlad the Impaler: in Search of the Real Dracula (2003)
- Boudicca (2004)
- Cnut: Emperor of the North (2005)
- Spartacus: the Myth and the Man (2006)
- The Pocket Hercules (2006)
- El Cid: the Making of a Legend (2007)
- War Crimes: Underworld Britain in the Second World War (2008)