Advancement of Learning

Old crime, new corpse. When the statue of President Alison Girling was moved to make way for a new building, the older faculty of this small British college were quite upset. When her corpse was found moldering in a makeshift grave beneath it, they were bloody shocked. For the formidable Miss Girling, five years dead, had been assumed buried in an Austrian avalanche - not by the hands of someone on campus. The groves of academe left irascible Superintendent Dalziel out of his usual element, but his sergeant, Peter Pascoe, felt right at home - especially when he discovered an ex-sweetheart in the ivied halls. But after a coed's murder added a new corpse to an old crime, both Dalziel and Pascoe found the motives of a killer didn't depend on book learning, but on the most common of all denominators - love and rage...