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Tears of the Giraffe (No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency) Book

It's going to take all her intuition and emminent 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, Mme 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.Read More

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  • Foyles

    Wayward daughters. Missing Husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - female private detective. The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency.Tears of the Giraffe, McCall Smith's second book, takes us further into this world as we follow Mma Ramotswe into more daring situations. Among her cases this time are errant wives, unscrupulous maids, and the challenge to resolve a mother's anguish for her son who is long-lost on the African plains. Indeed, Mma Ramotswe's own impending marriage to the most gentlemanly of men, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, the promotion of Mma's secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective and the arrival of new members to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales. Chosen as one of The Guardian's Top Ten Fiction Paperbacks of the Year in 2000, Tears of the Giraffe is a glorious, life-affirming read in one of the best-selling detective series of all time.

  • Play

    THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE McCall Smith's second book takes us further into this world as we follow Mama Ramotswe into more daring situations ...Among her cases this time are wayward wives unscrupulous maids and the challenge to resolve a mother's pain for her son who is long lost on the African plains. Indeed Mma Ramotswe's own impending marriage to the most gentlemanly of men Mr J.L.B. Matekoni the promotion of Mma's secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective and the arrival of new members to the Matekoni family all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales. * TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE was selected as one of the GUARDIAN's top ten 'Fiction Paperbacks of the Year 2000

  • Blackwell

    * Highly original 'detective' stories with unique setting and characters THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency.

  • BookDepository

    Tears of the Giraffe : Paperback : Little, Brown Book Group : 9780349116655 : : 07 Aug 2003 : The second book in the multi-million copy bestselling No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series

  • 0349116652
  • 9780349116655
  • Alexander McCall Smith
  • 7 August 2003
  • Abacus
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
  • New edition
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