- Mystery, Social life and customs, Women private investigators, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization)
The latest installment of this universally beloved and best-selling series finds Precious Ramotswe in personal need of her own formidable detection talents . . . . Mma Ramotswe's ever-ready tiny white van has recently developed a rather disturbing noise.
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- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Alexander McCall Smith
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 250
- Publisher
- Ed. de la Loupe, Recorded Books, Inc., Little, Brown
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780375424496
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- Mystery
- Social life and customs
- 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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