M Trow: 36 books
Cleopatra
Last Pharaoh of Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
When Cleopatra took the throne of the kingdom of Egypt, the pyramids and Sphinx were already ancient wonders. As queen she faced conquest by a new, all-powerful empire. A Ptolemy, descended from a general of Alexander the Great who conquered the Nile as part of his Macedonian lands, her relationship...
Swearing Like A Trooper
Rude Slang of World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
In September 1939, much military slang still dated to the trenches of 1914-18 - for instance words such as 'Berthas' (meaning big breasts), taken from the German Big Bertha gun . But World War II soon gave birth to a new wave of armed forces slang such as 'wizard prang', D.S.O (Dick Shot Off), and...
War Crimes
Underworld Britain in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
The Second World War was a defining experience in British history. It shaped us, made us what we are, and we are still fascinated by it. And one of the most extraordinary aspects of this unique war was the effect it had on crime - and this is the focus of M.J. Trow's compelling survey. He does not...
Enemies of the State
The Cato Street Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
On 1 May 1820, outside Newgate Prison, in front of a dense crowd, five of the Cato Street conspirators - Arthur Thistlewood, William Davidson, James Ings, Richard Tidd and John Brunt - were hanged for high treason. Then they were decapitated in the last brutal act of a murderous conspiracy that aimed...
by M.J. Trow
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Dismembered corpses are discovered scattered along the banks of the river Thames, a calculating clinical multiple murderer is on the loose, and the London police have no inkling of the killer’s identity – and, more than a century later, they still don’t. In this, M.J. Trow’s latest reinvestigation...
Jack the Ripper
Quest for a Killer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The definitive investigation, “full of colorful details and sensational speculations—for those who enjoy whodunits with a bit of real history” (Book News).
For more than a hundred and twenty years, the identity of the Whitechapel murderer known to us as Jack the Ripper has both eluded us...
Ripper Hunter
Abberline and the Whitechapel Murders
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline, the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he and his fellow policemen fail to catch the most notorious serial killer of Victorian England? What was he like as a man, as a professional policeman, one of the best detectives of his generation? And...
All Hallows' Eve
A Kit Marlowe Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
‘Tell me a story, Kit…’
It’s All Hallows’ Eve and Kit Marlowe’s evening is disrupted by the call of an ethereal voice, requesting a tale for the haunted night. From the depths of his creative mind comes the tale of ghostly horrors and unearthly cries which rattles even the most supernatural...
by M J Trow
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Death and villainy always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in the Isle of Wight the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in notorious cases of murder, deceit and pure malice that have marked the history...
The Adventures of Sir Samuel White Baker
Victorian Hero
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Sir Samuel White Baker is one of those larger-than-life heroes only the Victorians could invent. For too long, the British Empire has been denigrated and equated with arrogance at best and racial bigotry at worst. Samuel Baker transcends that. He was an explorer and naturalist, recording new species...
The Angel
A Charles Dickens mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
American enquiry agent Matthew Grand teams up with Englishman James Batchelor to investigate the murder of Charles Dickens.
June, 1870. The world-famous author Charles Dickens has been found dead in his summer house where he had been hard at work on his final, unfinished novel, The Mystery...
by M. J. Trow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Intrepid 19th-century enquiry agents American Matthew Grand and Englishman James Batchelor bring their investigation skills to Washington DC.
July, 1868. On receiving a commission from Matthew’s cousin Luther to look into the suspicious death of Lafayette Baker, Head of the US National Detective...
by M. J. Trow
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
All the world’s a stage when a character in Marlowe’s play kills a spectator in this absorbing historical tale of murder, spies, and greed.
March, 1587. Christopher Marlowe’s play Tamburlaine, with the incomparable Ned Alleyn in the title role, has opened at the Rose Theatre, and a new era...
The Last Gentleman of the SAS
A Moving Testimony from the First Allied Officer to Enter Belsen at the End of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
In 1945, John Randall was the first Allied officer to enter Bergen-Belsen – the concentration camp that would reveal the horrors of the Holocaust to the world. Randall was one of that league of extraordinary gentlemen handpicked for suicidally dangerous missions behind enemy lines in North Africa,...