Alexander McCall Smith

Tears of the Giraffe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The continuing story of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency--starring Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's first lady detective--finds our wily heroine searching for a young man who disappeared into the African plains many years ago.

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Precious Ramotswe is the eminently sensible and cunning proprietor of the only ladies' detective agency in Botswana. In Tears of the Giraffe she tracks a wayward wife, uncovers an unscrupulous maid, and searches for an American man who disappeared into the plains many years ago. In the midst of resolving uncertainties, pondering her impending marriage to a good, kind man, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, and the promotion of her talented secretary (a graduate of the Botswana Secretarial College, with a mark of 97 per cent), she also finds her family suddenly and unexpectedly increased by two.

Produktdetails

• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Nr.2
• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Anchor Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 132mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781400031351
• ISBN-10: 1400031354
• Artikelnr.: 21393219

Autorenporträt

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH is the author of the international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, 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 in Scotland and has served with many national and international organizations concerned with bioethics. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and was a law professor at the University of Botswana.

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