The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency /
McCall Smith Alexander 1948
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency / Number One Ladies' Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith. - 1st Anchor Books ed. - New York : Anchor Books, 2002. - 235 p. ; 21 cm.
This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith₂s 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 ₃help people with problems in their lives.₄ 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.
1400034779 (pbk.) 1400031346 (pbk.)
Ramotswe Precious Fictitious character--Fiction
No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Imaginary organization--Fiction
Women private investigators--Botswana--Fiction
Botswana--Fiction
Mystery fiction.
PR6063.C326
823/.914
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency / Number One Ladies' Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith. - 1st Anchor Books ed. - New York : Anchor Books, 2002. - 235 p. ; 21 cm.
This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith₂s 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 ₃help people with problems in their lives.₄ 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.
1400034779 (pbk.) 1400031346 (pbk.)
Ramotswe Precious Fictitious character--Fiction
No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Imaginary organization--Fiction
Women private investigators--Botswana--Fiction
Botswana--Fiction
Mystery fiction.
PR6063.C326
823/.914