- FICTION / Humorous, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Women private investigators, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization)
"Precious Ramotswe is back and, as usual, her plate is full! She's called in to tackle a mysterious disciplinary problem at her adopted daughter's school...Her infinitely trustworthy assistant, Grace Makutsi, is having trouble adjusting to wedded bliss, a problem to test even the formidable talents of Mma Ramotswe...And the estimable Clovis Andersen, author of The Principles of Private Investigation--the No.
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Contemporary, classical in form, warm and effortless.
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- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Alexander McCall Smith
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, Little, Brown, Alfred A. Knopf Canada
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307472991
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- FICTION / Humorous
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
- Women private investigators
- No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization)
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
- Americans
- Fiction
- Precious Ramotswe (Fictitious character)
- New York Times bestseller
- Large type books
- Botswana, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
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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