McCall Smith Alexander  1948 <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1400034779 (pbk.) 1400031346 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ramotswe Precious Fictitious character--Fiction<br/>No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Imaginary organization--Fiction<br/>Women private investigators--Botswana--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Botswana--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Mystery fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6063.C326 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823/.914