Cyril Raymond Howard Shaw (born 1934) is a British teacher and writer, specialising in crime fiction. He is a former head of history at

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.''Betrayal in Burgundy''.
Troubador. Retrieved 10 June 2015. Shaw was born in

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, and educated at

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and at Queen's College, Oxford, where he read modern history. He was commissioned in the

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during his

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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

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series. He has subsequently written a number of well-received works of mystery fiction, published initially under the pseudonym "Colin Howard", drawing on his knowledge of the English

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and the Oxford University college. ''Death of a Don'' (1982) was a

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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, ''

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'', 21 February 1982, p. 33.

Selected publications

*''The Levellers''.

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, London, 1968. (Seminar Studies in History) *''Killing No Murder''. Scribner, New York, 1981. *''Death of a Don''.

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, London, 1982. *''Thomas Hardy: An Autobiography in Verse''. Shepheard-Walwyn, 1984. (With Eliane Wilson) *''Pageant of Death''. Offa Press, Harrow on the Hill, 2000. *''Betrayal in Burgundy''. Matador, Leicester, 2013.

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Assistant Masters at Harrow School.
British non-fiction writers British writers Schoolteachers from Somerset People educated at Taunton School Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford Royal Artillery officers 1934 births Living people {{UK-writer-stub