Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries (Paperback): An Advancement of Learning : Dalziel & Pascoe #2 (Series #02) (Paperback)

from vlcraven

When a statue is moved and the body of a woman who was supposed to have died in Austria five years before appears Dalziel and Pascoe are called to the scene. I've always liked books set in college or similarly cloistered settings and this one has the usual array of oddball academics. Quite excell...

from JulesJones

[2006-04-04] The second Dalziel and Pascoe novel sees the pair at a college of higher education after the discovery of a corpse under a statue's foundation block. Naturally, life gets even more complicated, and not just because they have to wade through both student and staff politics in their pu...

from gypsysmom

Reginald HIll died earlier this year so there are no more Dalziel and Pascoe books to come. However, since I've only read one other (Death Comes for the Fat Man) and there were 24 in all I will have quite a few to keep me going. This is the second in the series and, as luck would have it, I picke...

from jonesli

This is my first in this series , but it is actually the second book, with A Clubbable Woman being the first. I found the witty repartee between Dalziel and Pascoe to be quite entertaining. A dead body is found on the grounds of Holm Coltram College. After finding two more bodies within the acade...

from infjsarah

Written in the early 1970s and it shows cos it's dreadfully sexist. But it was still very readable. It's interesting that I didn't write this review until I'd finished another crime book written recently and this one is far better written despite the sexism.