Catalog
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
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With the proceeds of her late father's cattle, Mma Precious Ramotswe opens Botswana's only female-run detective agency in a small building in Gaborone, hangs out a sign and waits for clients. They come with missing husbands, suspicious insurance claims, a fraudulent daddy and, eventually, a genuinely troubling case involving a lost child. Working from intuition, patience and an encyclopaedic feel for human nature, she pieces answers together over cups of bush tea. Episodic, wry and affectionate about its country and its people, the book moves at an unhurried pace and resolves its troubles with quiet good sense rather than violence.
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