The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Apr 3, 2012 - Fiction - 272 pages

THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 13

Fans around the world adore the best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma  Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea.
 
Precious Ramotswe is haunted by a repeated dream: a vision of a tall, strange man who waits for her beneath an acacia tree. Odd as this is, she’s far too busy to worry about it. The best apprentice at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors is in trouble with the law and stuck with the worst lawyer in Gaborone. Grace Makutsi and Phuti Radiphuti are building the house of their dreams, but their builder is not completely on the up and up. And, most shockingly, Mma Potokwane, defender of Botswana’s weak and downtrodden, has been dismissed from her post as matron at the orphan farm. Can the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency help restore the beloved matron to her rightful position?
 
As wealthy and powerful influences at the orphan farm become allied against their friend, help arrives from an unexpected visitor: the tall stranger from Mma Ramotswe’s dreams, who turns out to be none other than the estimable Clovis Andersen, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ prized manual, The Principles of Private Detection. Together, Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makutsi, and their teacher-turned-colleague help right this injustice and in the process discover something new about being a good detective.


BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Alexander McCall Smith's The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon.  

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Contents

On a Hot Day We Dream of
Food Cooked with Love Tastes Better
Your House Has Got My Name On
I Shall Simply Look Up in the
I am Your Friend and I am Asking
The Things of Which a Mechanic Might Speak
The This Way Up Building Company
Mma Ramotswe Drives Clovis Andersen
The Effect of Lime
There are Some Nice People on the Road
Gold Inside Not Just Outside
How Many Cups of Tea
The Habits of Lions
Have You Had Any Injections Recently?
A Lawyer Spills Tea Over His Shirt
You are a Visitor to Our Country

The Government Does Not Own the
She Was Like a Deflated Balloon
An Innocent Man a First Offender
Better Nails Better Life
Mma Ramotswe I have a Confession
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Alexander McCall Smith is also the author of the Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, the 44 Scotland Street series, and the Corduroy Mansions series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh and has served with many national and international organizations concerned with bioethics. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and taught law at the University of Botswana. He lives in Scotland.

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