- Fiction, Precious Ramotswe (Fictitious character), Women private investigators, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization)
This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to "help people with problems in their lives."
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Alexander McCall Smith
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Random House, Random House Large Print, Penguin
- Editions
- 56
- Language
- Polish, Russian, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780356236162
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- Fiction
- Precious Ramotswe (Fictitious character)
- Women private investigators
- No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization)
- Private investigators
- Large type books
- Detective and mystery stories
- Precious Ramotswe (Fictional character)
- Large print books
- Missing children
- Mystery 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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