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  • Maxwell's Ride

  • By: M. J. Trow
  • Narrated by: Peter Wickham
  • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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Maxwell's Ride

By: M. J. Trow
Narrated by: Peter Wickham
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Summary

While riding the Wild Water, a man is killed in the float ahead, and Max and the girls become witnesses to murder. The corpses multiply as Maxwell nears the end of his search for the truth - but will one of them be his own niece?

©2000 M. J. Trow (P)2001 Soundings
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Weakest so far

The Mad Max character was as intellectual, enigmatic and humorous as ever - you often have to be as quick-witted as him to keep up and and the same age to appreciate the majority of the cultural references.
And those aspects of the book I loved.
What let it down was the Agatha Christie -style mystery and, in particular, the Miss Marple-esque explanation and ‘reveal’ at the end. In fact, unfortunately the whodunnit was too obvious for it to be compared with MS Christie.

Fortunately, the crime is merely a sub plot to the antics and personal life of Mad Max so Trow gets away with the weak storyline.

One final point - the recording was poor quality. I had to have my phone on the highest volume and my car radio almost the same in order to hear the narration.

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