An Advancement of Learning

An Advancement of Learning
First edition cover
Author	Reginald Hill
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Dalziel and Pascoe series, #2
Genre	crime novel
Publisher	Collins Crime Club
Publication date	1971
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	254p.
ISBN	0-00-231009-0
OCLC	16194286
Preceded by	A Clubbable Woman
Followed by	Ruling Passion

An Advancement of Learning is a 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

Publication history

1971, London: Collins Crime Club ISBN 0-00-231009-0, Pub date 1971, Hardback
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.

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) 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	One Small Step (1990) Asking for the Moon (1996)

TV series	Dalziel and Pascoe Episodes

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