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Readers will agree that this touching and dramatic new installment in Alexander McCall Smith's beloved and best-selling series is the finest yet.
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Classical in form, contemporary, effortless and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Alexander McCall Smith
- First published
- 1960
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Knopf Canada, Wheeler Pub.
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307277480
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- Mystery
- Women private investigators in fiction
- Women private investigators
- No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization)
- Fiction
- Precious Ramotswe (Fictitious character)
- Large type books
- New York Times bestseller
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- Ramotswe, precious (fictitious character), fiction
- Botswana, fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
Alexander McCall Smith, often referred to as ‘Sandy’, is one of the world’s most prolific and best-loved authors. For many years he was a professor of Medical Law and worked in universities in the UK and abroad before turning his hand to writing fiction. He has written and contributed to more than 100 books including specialist academic titles, short story collections, and a number of immensely popular children’s books. His first book, The White Hippo—a children’s book, was published by Hamish Hamilton in 1980. But it wasn’t until the publication of the highly successful The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series that Alexander became a household name. The series has now sold over twenty mill
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