Simon Said (Simon Shaw Mysteries)
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ISBN: 0312965559 / Publisher: St Martins Pr, May 1998
When an archaeologist discovers a decaying body while excavating Kenan College's distinguished Bloodsworth House, Simon Shaw, the leading authority on the house's history, investigates the seventy-two-year-old mystery behind the death of the Bloodsworth heiress. Reprint.
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She had a cameo choker around her neck and a bullet in her skull...The heiress had been dead for over seventy years.Eyebrows are raised as yellow crime-scene tape drapes across the once-distinguished Colonial Bloodworth House. For the mansion, nestled cozily amidst the tranquil academia of Kenan College, may have once been the scene of a brutal murder.The decayed body was found when archeologist David Morgan conducted a dig beneath the original three rooms of the 1785 house-- he was only hoping to unearth some Colonial-era artifacts.Professor Simon Shaw, Kenan College's youngest full-time professor, knows more about the house than anyone-- he even wrote a book about the historic building-- so naturally, Morgan enlists his professional friend for a little detective work. What Morgan has found, it seems, are the remains of the estate's heiress-- an unsolved missing persons case since 1926. As Simon digs deeper into this decades-old murder, he finds that someone still very much alive wants to put a permanent stop to his investigating...
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