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Simon Said (Hardcover)

by Sarah R. Shaber (Author) "PROFESSOR SIMON SHAW HADN'T OPENED THE OLD-FASHIONED venetian blinds on his floor-to-ceiling office windows yet this morning ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 216 pages
Publisher: Vhps Trade (Mar 15 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312152078
ISBN-13: 978-0312152079
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 363 g

Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #698,792 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Murder most archeological. While searching for artifacts in the aptly named Bloodworth House, Professor Simon Shaw--young, gifted, and Pulitzered--comes upon a less-than-colonial corpse. Could she be the long-missing heroine Anne Bloodworth and can Professor Shaw sort things out and give his students their money's worth? Fans of gentle mystery and Southern civility should opt for Simon Said.

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Simon Shaw, Pulitzer Prize-winning history professor at a small, private college in Raleigh, assists police in identifying a body discovered behind an historic house on campus. Although the victim, a young heiress, died in 1926, Shaw feels compelled to find out who killed her. His quest, plus the attentions of a police lawyer interested in the case, pull him out of a depression caused by his recent divorce and departmental politics?but then someone tries to kill him. Although the prose is a bit cut and dried, the Raleigh setting and historic elements should please most readers.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Feeling of being in the story, May 26 2004

By	Judith M. Thompson "judy_thom" (Baghdad, Iraq) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Simon Said: A Somon Shaw Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)

I pick up this book at my local library, just before the the auther was going to come speak. I finished in about 2 days and found it a very fun read. Since I live in Raleigh, I have walk on the same sidewalks through the neighborhoods and colleges mentioned in the story. I found myself in the story most the the way through. By that I mean that the stressors or distractions of my world melted away as I was absorbed into Simon's world. I like that in a book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great southern mystery, Sep 15 2002

By	"freemonkeys" (Raleigh, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Simon Said: A Somon Shaw Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)

This is one of those great books that is fun to curl up on the couch and read. Full of great descriptions and well developed charachters -- not to much a great, twisting plot -- it is no wonder it won Best First Mystery! I recommend to anyone and to the reader who reviewed it before, I would like to see you try and write something of this caliber!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Prize-winning disappointment, May 9 2002

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This review is from: Simon Said: A Somon Shaw Mystery (Mass Market Paperback)

I picked up this book because it won a Malice Domestic Award from St. Martin's press and because it's set in an area where I used to live. It does a nice job of giving the reader a sense of Raleigh, but it fails utterly as a mystery. The characters -- both the villain and the investigator -- lack believable motivation. Prof. Simon Shaw wants to solve a 70-year-old murder case, well, just because he wants to. The author shows little understanding of the academic world in which the book is set. A tenured professor could not be fired for taking anti-depressants. Any college that tried to do so would find a nasty lawsuit on its hands.

The book is riddled with small technical problems. Shaber never met a point-of-view shift that she didn't like, in the middle of a page or a paragraph, it doesn't matter. The editor fell asleep on this one. And at one point the narrator compares a character to "Athena determined to defend Troy from the Greeks." The only problem is that Athena was on the side of the Greeks against the Trojans.

Female investigators are often ridiculed for getting themselves into dangerous situations in the next-to-last chapter of the book, only to be rescued by a friendly policeman. Prof. Shaw falls into that cliched trap in this book.

And this thing won a prize?

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable book.
I enjoyed every page of this book. It is a mature mystery written in a very pleasurable style. Funny remarks, deep observations, characters that are alive and personable - all... Read more

Published on April 16 2001 by M.Chilov

5.0 out of 5 stars What a Great Start.
Very fun book, I read it in one day, couldn't put it down. Wonderful characters, I loved Simon, very real and human character. Read more

Published on Jul 24 2000 by Michael Butts

3.0 out of 5 stars Promises much but doesn't quite deliver
After reading the first three chapters, I was completely hooked--this promised to be one of the best mysteries I'd read in a long while. But then the plot languished. Read more

Published on May 28 2000 by Roger Long

5.0 out of 5 stars A terrific, well-written whodunit
As a long since escaped native of Raleigh (the scene of the crime), I was fully taken with Ms. Shaber's description of the older Raleigh area. Read more