The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction

Wayward daughters. Missing Husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, and her manner not exactly Miss Marple, but she's got warmth, wit and canny intuition on her side, not to mention Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, the charming proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. And Precious is going to need them all as she sets out on the trail of a missing child, a case that tumbles our heroine into a hotbed of strange situations and more than a little danger ...Delightfully different, THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY offers a captivating glimpse of an unusual world.

General Information

  • : 9780349120997
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
  • : Abacus
  • : 0.205
  • : 01 February 2008
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 08 September 2023
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Alexander McCall Smith
  • : Paperback
  • : TV tie-in ed
  • : 823.914
  • : 256

More About The Product

'Everything about [McCall Smith] is appealing. He's just full of delight - it just bubbles out of him' SUNDAY HERALD 'Indeed, the effort involved would have been justified by just one of them, THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY' Gerald Kaufman, Chairman of the 1999 BOOKER Prize Jury 'A rare pleasure' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A publishing phenomenon' GUARDIAN

ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is a Professor of Medical Law, but also an author who has now written over fifty books on a wide range of subjects. His collection of African stories,CHILDREN OF WAX, received critical acclaim and has been the subject of an award-winning film.