Maxwell's House - Large Printl Author:M. J. Trow It has always been a house of secrets, a house of shadows; spiders spinning in the cracks, woodlice crawling through the fallen plaster. The kids called it The Red House; exactly why none of them could tell. But then, none of them was asked until that summer, the summer they found her there, strangled. — Two men had the job of t... more »racing seventeen-year-old Jenny Hyde's killer. One was Chief Inspector Henry Hall, an elitist copper of the new school, the other was Peter Maxwell -Mad Max- a widowed teacher under suspension and suspicion. Maxwell didn't have to become involved at all. But he was involved; so involved that he didn't know how to get out. Jenny had been one of his sixth-form pupils.« less