The Kalahari Typing School for Men
by Alexander McCall Smith
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In this fourth volume of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the ever-popular Precious Ramotswe- Botswana's leading, and only, female private detective - faces a new and unwanted problem: competition.
'Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reassess his life?
"There is something almost divinely appealing about the way Alexander McCall Smith writes about daily life in Botswana . . . it is hard to think of a contemporary writer more genuinely engaging ... [his] novels are also extremely funny: I find it impossible to think about them without smiling' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
'A treasure of a writer whose books deserve immediate devouring' Marcel Berlins, Guardian
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Detective and mystery stories, Women private investigators, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization), Fiction, Precious Ramotswe (Fictitious character), Precious Ramotswe (Fictional character), Mystery fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Private investigators, fiction, Botswana, fiction, Ramotswe, precious (fictitious character), fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Ramotswe, Precious (Personnage fictif), Femmes detectivesPlaces
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The Kalahari typing school for men
2003, Pantheon Books
Hardcover
in English
- 1st American ed.
037542217X 9780375422171
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The Kalahari Typing School for Men: more from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
2003, Center Point Pub., Bolinda Pub.
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1585473316 9781585473311
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The Kalahari typing school for men
2002, Anchor Books
in English
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Originally published: Edinburgh: Polygon, 2002.
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective AgencyFor All Confidential Matters and InquiriesSatisfaction Guaranteed for all PartiesUnder Personal ManagementThe phenomenal success of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency continues with the bestselling Kalahari Typing School for Men, the fourth book in the series.Mma Precious Ramotswe is content. Her business is well established with many satisfied customers, and in her mid-thirties ("the finest age to be") she has a house, two adopted children, a fine fiance. But, as always, there are troubles. Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni has not set the date for their marriage. Her able assistant, Mma Makutsi, wants a husband. And worse, a rival detective agency has opened in town--an agency that does not have the gentle approach to business that Mma Ramotswe's does. But, of course, Precious will manage these things, as she always does, with her uncanny insight and her good heart.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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