An Advancement of Learning

An Advancement of Learning
Reginald Hill

All is not well at Holm Coultram College.All is not well at Holm Coultram College: lecturers having affairs with students, witches’ sabbaths, a body buried under a statue.Detective Superintendent Dalziel, despite his cynical view of academics, doesn’t feel murder fits in here – let alone a rash of killings. But when he and DS Pascoe are sent to investigate a disinterred corpse at Holm Coultram College, that’s exactly what they find…

REGINALD HILL

AN ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

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For Malcom & Anne

Mike & Jo

Jim & Kathy

Contents

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Title Page (#ud96d27fc-7c82-5828-879f-f77e391d0dd9)

Copyright (#u7fc1962f-571e-57db-bbce-ea64277a5f08)

Dedication (#u594ee66d-ccb5-58ee-bcea-d36904a9fc0a)

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