An Advancement Of Learning

Lecturers having it away with students, witches’ sabbaths on the sand dunes, sit-ins, a body buried under a statue in the gardens …

Wait a minute, murder didn’t quite fit in, even with Superintendent Dalziel’s cynical view of what college administrations spent his taxes on.

So when Dalziel and that over-educated Sergeant of his, Pascoe, were sent to investigate a disinterred corpse at Holm Coultram College, he hadn’t reckoned on a rash of fresh killings.

While Pascoe rekindled an old flame on the staff, protesting students identified Dalziel as a ‘fascist pig’. The Superintendent smiled with satisfaction. If that’s how they wanted to play it…