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Champion of the Malice Domestic/St. Martin's Press Best First Traditional Mystery Honor Forensic historian Simon Shaw enjoys his killings cool and aged, and his first situation fits the statement. An archeologist friend has discovered a skeleton with a bullet-hole in its head under historical Bloodworth Home, till he finds the corpse is Anne Bloodworth, an heiress who vanished in 1926 and Simon investigates with his typical doggedness. Shaw seems obligated to discover who murdered her.