An Advancement of Learning

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An Advancement of Learning
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Author Reginald Hill
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Series Dalziel and Pascoe series, #2
Genre crime novel
Publisher Collins Crime Club
Publication date
1971
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages254p.
ISBN 0-00-231009-0
OCLC 16194286
Preceded by A Clubbable Woman  
Followed by Ruling 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]

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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.

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