- Mystery, Women editors, Investment bankers in fiction, Isabel Dalhousie (Fictitious character)
The sensational sixth installment in the best-selling chronicles of the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie. Isabel's son, Charlie, is now of an age--eighteen months--to have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabel's surprise, she encounters an old adversary, Minty Auchterlonie, now a high-flying financier.
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- Author
- Alexander McCall Smith
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 259
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Random House Inc.
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781408700631
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- Mystery
- Women editors
- Investment bankers in fiction
- Isabel Dalhousie (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
- Women philosophers
- Women editors in fiction
- Women philosophers in fiction
- Investment bankers
- New York Times bestseller
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- Dalhousie, isabel (fictitious character), 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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