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  • An Advancement of Learning

  • By: Reginald Hill
  • Narrated by: Warren Clarke
  • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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Summary

Lecturers having it away with students, witches’ sabbaths on the sand dunes, a body buried under a statue in the gardens, and a fresh rash of killings. 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…

©2011 Reginald Hill (P)2011 Harper Collins

Critic reviews

'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace' Donna Leon, Sunday Times

'The finest male English contemporary crime writer' Val McDermid

'Reginald Hill's novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories intertwining'
Ian Rankin

'One of Britain's most consistently excellent crime novelists' The Times

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Wonderful narrator of a beautifully written novel

Having read reviews of other narrators reading Reginald Hill novels, I was delighted to see that Warren Clarke narrates some of them.
My delight continued as I started to listen to his voice, sometimes Dalziel, sometimes himself, with a variety of accents for other characters. Clarke does a great Scottish accent!
The quality of the writing is brought to life by Hill, making 'An Advancement of Learning' much more than simply a clever 'whodunnit'.
I shall be buying any Hill audiobook read by Clarke.

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