An Advancement of Learning

1971 novel by Reginald Hill

0-00-231009-0OCLC16194286Preceded byA Clubbable Woman Followed byRuling Passion 

An Advancement of Learning is a 1971 crime novel by Reginald Hill, the second novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series.

In this novel, the detectives investigate a murder at the fictional Holm Coultram College.[1] More bodies are found after their arrival on campus.[2] In this novel, Pascoe's future wife joins the action as a faculty member whom he knew from years past.

The book's title is an homage to Francis Bacon's (1561–1626) philosophical tome, The Advancement of Learning.[3]

References

  1. ^ "An Advancement of Learning | Felony & Mayhem Press". felonyandmayhem.com. Archived from the original on 23 January 2012.
  2. ^ "An Advancement of Learning by Reginald Hill". Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
  3. ^ The Advancement of Learning.

Publication history

  • 1971, London: Collins Crime Club ISBN 0-00-231009-0, Pub date 1971, Hardback
  • 1987, New York: Signet (Penguin) ISBN 0-451-14656-5, Paperback
  • 1996, Toronto: Harper Collins Canada ISBN 0-586-07259-4, Paperback
  • 2008, New York: Felony & Mayhem Press ISBN 978-1-934609-08-8, Pub date 2008.
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Dalziel and Pascoe series by Reginald Hill
Novels
  • A Clubbable Woman (1970)
  • An Advancement of Learning (1971)
  • Ruling Passion (1973)
  • An April Shroud (1975)
  • A Pinch of Snuff (1978)
  • A Killing Kindness (1980)
  • Deadheads (1983)
  • Exit Lines (1984)
  • Child's Play (1987)
  • Under World (1988)
  • Bones and Silence (1990)
  • One Small Step (1990)
  • Recalled to Life (1992)
  • Pictures of Perfection (1994)
  • The Wood Beyond (1995)
  • On Beulah Height (1998)
  • Arms and the Women (1999)
  • Dialogues of the Dead (2002)
  • Death's Jest-Book (2003)
  • Good Morning, Midnight (2004)
  • The Death of Dalziel (2007)
  • A Cure for All Diseases (2008)
  • Midnight Fugue (2009)
Short stories
  • Auteur Theory (1987)
  • Asking for the Moon (1996)
TV series
  • A Pinch of Snuff (1994)
  • Dalziel and Pascoe


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