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...Advancement of Learning (Countryman Press; 254 pages; $14.95) was written by Briton Reginald Hill in 1971 as the second book featuring his police duo Dalziel and Pascoe, but this is its first appearance in the U.S. Hill has written better books since, including this year's Exit Lines and the chilling 1984 portrait of a psychopath, Deadheads. Nonetheless, this volume is a skillful reworking of a standard routine in mystery fiction: the discovery of a long-buried skeleton and the consequent unraveling of a skein of past concealment and deceit. The setting is a mediocre British college, recently converted from...
...when and where the continents drifted during this critical period in the planet's history, just as life was beginning to emerge from the sea. It may help explain the birth of the Pacific Ocean, and even point the way to valuable mineral deposits. Said co-author Ian Dalziel, from the University of Texas at Austin: "The theory gives us a new road map for the past 570 million years...
Last week's report, delivered by Dalziel and his colleague Eldridge Moores of the University of California at Davis, revealed a key piece of new evidence. On the shore of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, the scientists had tentatively identified an ancient rock formation known as the Grenville Belt, which runs from northern Canada along the eastern seaboard and then dips out of sight in southwestern Texas. This geologic connection, combined with some data from the magnetic orientation of ancient rocks, suggests that Antarctica, as well as Australia, was shoved up against the western coast of North America late...
...proves correct, silver, copper and zinc (all found in eastern Australia) should also turn up in northwestern Canada. But scientists caution that before anybody rushes out with a prospector's pick, research must confirm that the rocks in the Western U.S. are really related to those in eastern Antarctica. Dalziel estimates that this comparison should take no more than six months -- a short wait to clear up a mystery that has been around for half a billion years...
...abundance of worthy series, one proof that writers are wise to resist them is that the two best current entries in any category are one-offs. Both are from British writers better noted for their series featuring pairs of mismatched policemen. Reginald Hill, whose stories of the cops Dalziel and Pascoe verge on instant classics, writes Death of a Dormouse (Mysterious Press; 281 pages; $15.95) under the pseudonym Patrick Ruell. He discerningly depicts the slow emergence from submission to self-respect of a woman who discovers after her husband's death how little she has known of his real life...