- Women philosophers, Fiction, Isabel Dalhousie (Fictitious character), Mystery fiction
A couple who are old friends of Isabel Dalhousie's ask for her help in a rather tricky situation: A successor is being sought for the headmaster position at their alma mater. The board has four final candidates but has received an anonymous letter alleging that one of them has a very serious skeleton in the closet. Could Isabel discreetly look into it?
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- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Alexander McCall Smith
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada, Pantheon, Little, Brown
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780708867808
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- Women philosophers
- Fiction
- Isabel Dalhousie (Fictitious character)
- Mystery fiction
- Scottish Detective and mystery stories
- Dalhousie, isabel (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- Edinburgh (scotland), fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- School principals
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Fiction, crime
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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