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Cyril Raymond Howard Shaw (born 1934) is a British teacher and writer, the former head of history at Harrow School.〔(''Betrayal in Burgundy''. ) Troubador. Retrieved 10 June 2015.〕 Shaw was educated at Taunton School and at Queen's College, Oxford, where he read modern history. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery during his national service after which he taught at Harrow School from 1961-1997. In 1966, Shaw was elected a schoolmaster fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.〔 In 1968, Shaw produced ''The Levellers'' in the Seminar Studies in History series. He has also written a number of well-received〔"Writers' reading in 1982", ''The Guardian'', 9 December 1982, p. 16.〕 works of mystery fiction in which he has drawn on his knowledge of the English public school and the Oxford University college. ''Death of a Don'' (1982) was a Mystery Guild selection, and was later re-published in the U.K. in the Black Dagger Crime series. Of the book, Christopher Wordsworth commented "Cambridge may incubate the best traitors but Oxford can pride itself on fiction's best corpses".〔"Crime Ration", Christopher Wordsworth, ''The Observer'', 21 February 1982, p. 33.〕 ==Selected publications== *''The Levellers''. Longman, London, 1968. (Seminar Studies in History) ISBN 0582313872 *''Killing No Murder''. Scribner, New York, 1981. ISBN 0684168847 *''Death of a Don''. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1982. ISBN 0340276436 *''Thomas Hardy: An Autobiography in Verse''. Shepheard-Walwyn, 1984. (With Eliane Wilson) ISBN 0856830739 *''Pageant of Death''. Offa Press, Harrow on the Hill, 2000. ISBN 095395210X *''Betrayal in Burgundy''. Matador, Leicester, 2013. ISBN 9781780884882 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Howard Shaw (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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