Alexander McCall Smith
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe's office. Then a nurse from a local medical clinic reveals to Mma Ramotswe that faulty blood-pressure readings are being recorded there. And it looks as though Aunty Emang, the advice columnist in the local newspaper, may not be what she seems.
Author
Series
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 9
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the ninth mystery of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe visits a game preserve to uncover the truth about an elderly American traveler whose safari proves to be his last journey.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Precious Ramotswe, owner of Botswana's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, finds herself beset with problems with a strange intruder in her house, the mysterious appearance of a pumpkin, the desertion of one of her husband's apprentices, and a visitor bearing secrets from the past.
Author
Series
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 23
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi encounters a pair of quandaries that will require all of her and Mma Ramotswe's cleverness and generosity to resolve. Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm seems interested only in...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Precious Ramotswe learns that her old van is still up and running and sets out to get it back, but first she needs to team up with Grace Makutsi, whose relationship with Phuti Radiphuti is progressing toward wedding bells, to help a couple whose would-be groom has fled his own shot-gun wedding, solve a case in which cattle are being poisoned, and more.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Isabel Dalhousie helps a doctor accused of scientific fraud clear his name and restore his stellar reputation, but when her investigation pits her against a powerful pharmaceutical company, Isabel fears she may be in over her head.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When friends from Dallas arrive in Edinburgh and introduce Isabel to Tom Bruce, a bigwig at home in Texas, several confounding situations unfurl at once. Tom's young fiancée's roving eye leads Isabel to believe that money may be the root of her love for Tom. But what, Isabel wonders, is the root of the interest Tom begins to show for Isabel herself? And she can't forget about her niece, Cat, who's busy falling for a man whom Isabel suspects of being...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old Pat, working at an Edinburgh art gallery while on sabbatical from college, becomes involved in the lives of her eccentric neighbors at 44 Scotland Street, while trying to solve the mystery of a possible lost masterpiece.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Isabel takes her eighteen-month-old son Charlie to a birthday party where she encounters her old adversary Minty Auchterlonie, who seems to want to make Isabel her confidante, but there are still those troubling questions about Minty's integrity; and Isabel faces other dilemmas with Professor Dove, her niece Cat, and Charlie's loving, marriage-minded father.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi, of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, travel to a safari lodge in the Okavango Delta to find an heir to an unexpected legacy, while also working on cases involving adultery, a greedy girlfriend, and Grace's fiancée's controlling aunt.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The residents of Corduroy Mansions are worried about William's terrier Freddie de la Hay, the only dog clever enough to have been recruited by MI6, who has disappeared while on a mystery tour around the Suffolk countryside.