The derelict house on the edge of the sleepy seaside town was a haven for courting couples, down-and-outs - and someone with altogether more sinister intentions. It was there that they found the corpse of 17-year-old Jenny Hyde. She'd been strangled. Peter "Mad Max" Maxwell didn't have to become involved at all. But one of his pupils had been murdered and Maxwell took it personally. However, his efforts to discover the truth about Jenny's death land the genial Head of Sixth in deeper trouble than he could ever have thought possible.
The derelict house on the edge of the sleepy seaside town was a haven for courting couples, down-and-outs - and someone with altogether more sinister intentions. It was there that they found the corpse of 17-year-old Jenny Hyde. She'd been strangled. Peter "Mad Max" Maxwell didn't have to become involved at all. But one of his pupils had been murdered and Maxwell took it personally. However, his efforts to discover the truth about Jenny's death land the genial Head of Sixth in deeper trouble than he could ever have thought possible.
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