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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 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 portrait of an exotic world. 'I was enchanted by the character of Precious Ramotswe and the sly humour of Alexander McCall Smith's writing' Anthony Minghella, Director of The English Patient Forget the library the body is in the mud hut. Superb' Sunday Times 'I haven't read anything with such unalloyed pleasure for a long time' Sunday Telegraph 'A rare pleasure' Daily Telegraph
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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
«Con le avventure di Precious Ramotswe, la prima e unica detective del Botswana, terra di pace e di minimi reati, Alexander McCall Smith ha portato nella sterminata galassia del giallo un tocco delicato come una tazza di tè rosso sorseggiato tra gli arbusti del Kalahari.» ttL la Stampa - Bruno Ventavoli Figlie ribelli. Mariti scomparsi. Fidanzati fedifraghi. Truffatori impiccioni. Coccodrilli spariti. Se avete un problema, e non sapete come fare o a chi rivolgervi, è il momento di bussare alla porta di Precious Ramotswe, la sola e migliore investigatrice privata del Botswana. Non ha metodi propriamente convenzionali e le sue maniere non sono esattamente quelle di Miss Marple, ma è sensibile, affettuosa, ha uno strabiliante intuito investigativo e…, cosa non da poco, ha un amico come il signor JLB Matekoni, l’affascinante proprietario della Speedy Motors di Tlokweng Road. E le serviranno tutte le sue qualità e l’aiuto del suo prezioso amico per risolvere un caso davvero complicato: seguire le tracce di un bambino scomparso…
In 1999 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. Tears of the Giraffe takes us further into the life of the engaging and sassy Precious Ramotswe, the owner and detective of Botswana's only Ladies' detective agency. Among her cases are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids and a challenge to resolve a mother's pain for her son, who is long lost on the African plains. Mma Ramotswe's own impending marriage to that most gentlemanly of men, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, the promotion of her secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective and new additions to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales.