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The no. 1 ladies' detective agency / Alexander McCall Smith.

By: Language: English Series: The Sunday philosophy club ; 1Publisher: New York : Anchor books, 2002Edition: 1. Anchor books edDescription: 235 sContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1400034779
Other title:
  • The number one ladies' detective agency
DDC classification:
  • 823.914 23/swe
Other classification:
  • He.01
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Book Biblioteket HKR Skönlitteratur Roman Eng McCall Available 11156000144466
Total holds: 0

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe--with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi--navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea.

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." Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors.

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency received two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the International Books of the Year and the Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement .