Meirion James Trow (born 16 October 1949)[1] is a Welsh author of crime fiction, who writes under the name M. J. Trow.[2] He has written mysteries featuring Inspector Lestrade, Peter Maxwell, Kit Marlowe and Margaret Murray.
Co-written with Richard Denham, and set in Sub-Roman Britain.
Part I: The Wall (2014)
Part II: The Watchmen (2014)
Part III: The Warlords (2016)
World of Britannia: Historical Companion to the Britannia Series (2016)
Non-fiction
Let Him Have It, Chris (1990), on which the film Let Him Have It (1991) was based
The Wigwam Murder, based on the August Sangret case. (1994, republished by T Squared Books in 2016)
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)
A Brief History of Vampires (2010)[9]
Ripper Hunter: Abberline and the Whitechapel Murders (2012)
A Brief History of Cleopatra (2013)[10]
The Hagley Wood Murder: Nazi Spies and Witchcraft in Wartime Britain (2023)
References
^"Trow, M.J. 1949– | Encyclopedia.com".
^Edge, Simon (6 November 2009). "Jack The Ripper – Quest for a Killer: MJ Trow". Daily Express. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
^"Trow, M.J. 1949– | Encyclopedia.com".
^"Trow, M. J. 1949– | Encyclopedia.com".
^"Fiction Book Review: The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade by M. J. Trow". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
^"Lestrade and the Deadly Game by M. J. Trow". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
^"Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder by M. J. Trow". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
^"Silent Court by M. J. Trow". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
^Do, Myha. "Book Review: M. J. Trow, A Brief History of Vampires". Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
^"A Brief History of Cleopatra by M. J. Trow". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 27 May 2016.