Tears of the Giraffe
by Alexander McCall Smith
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Following on from the brilliant The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe charts the further adventures of Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest female private detective.
It's going to take all her intuition and eminent sensibility for Precious to crack her hardest case yet: the decade-old disappearance of an American on the edge of the Kalahari. And if that wasn't enough, there are plenty of matters closer to home to concern her: her highly talented secretary, Mma Makutsi, eager to be promoted to detective; the unscrupulous maid of her husband-to-be, the wonderful Mr J. L. B. Matekoni; and the sudden - and unexpected - increase in her family by not one, but two.
'Smart and sassy . . . Precious's progress is charted in passages that have the power to amuse or shock or touch the heart, sometimes all at once' LOS ANGELES TIMES
'A rare pleasure' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'A publishing phenomenon' GUARDIAN
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Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Botswana, fiction, Ramotswe, precious (fictitious character), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Women detectives, Fiction, Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery, Novela de misterio, Precious Ramotswe (Fictitious character), Investigadoras privadas, Women private investigators, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization), Mystery fiction, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Organización imaginaria), Ficción, Ramotswe, Precious (Personaje literario), Women, Mystery & Detective, Humorous, Women Sleuths, Fictitious Character, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Ramotswe, Precious (Personnage fictif), Romans, nouvelles, Femmes détectives| Edition | Availability |
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Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
December 31, 2020, Pantheon
in English
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Tears of the Giraffe
Jul 07, 2015, Recorded Books on Brilliance Audio
mp3 cd
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Las Lagrimas De La Jirafa / Tears Of The Giraffe
May 1, 2004, Umbriel
Paperback
in Spanish
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Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
January 2004, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Hardcover
in English
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Tears of the Giraffe
August 7, 2003, Abacus
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
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Tears of the Giraffe
2003, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
eBook
in English
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Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency)
April 2003, Recorded Books
Audio Cassette
in English
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Tears of the Giraffe: More from The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
April 2003, Recorded Books
Audio CD
in English
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Ein Gentleman für Mma Ramotswe. Der zweite Fall der 'No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency'.
February 1, 2002, Nymphenburger
Hardcover
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Tears Of The Giraffe
Sep 03, 2002, Turtleback Books
school & library binding
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Tears of the giraffe: [more from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency]
2000, Polygon, Anchor / Random House
in English
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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.
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