The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency / Alexander McCall Smith - Thorndike, MA : Center Point Publishing , c2002. - 239 p. ; - Large print books .
Originally published: Edinburgh : Polygon, 1998. First title in a series of the same name.
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."
9781585473281
Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Women private investigators---Botswana----Fiction
Botswana---Fiction
Detective and mystery stories----Fiction
LARP MYS MCC
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency / Alexander McCall Smith - Thorndike, MA : Center Point Publishing , c2002. - 239 p. ; - Large print books .
Originally published: Edinburgh : Polygon, 1998. First title in a series of the same name.
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."
9781585473281
Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Women private investigators---Botswana----Fiction
Botswana---Fiction
Detective and mystery stories----Fiction
LARP MYS MCC
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