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The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency
de Alexander McCall Smith
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0349120994
- ISBN 13
- 9780349120997
- Librería
-
Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
Abacus, UK, 2009. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Medium Trade Paperback. 250 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Abacus, UK, 2009. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. This book is an unread copy. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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. Her methods may not be conventional, and her manner not exactly Miss Marple, but she's got warmth, wit and canny intuition on her side, not to mention Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, the charming proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. And Precious is going to need them all as she sets out on the trail of a missing child, a case that tumbles our heroine into a hotbed of strange situations and more than a little danger ...Delightfully different, THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY offers a captivating glimpse of an unusual world. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; ISBN/EAN: 9780349120997. Inventory No: 11120497.. 9780349120997
Sinopsis
This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to "help people with problems in their lives." Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors.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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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El Aug 5 2018, un lector dijo:
The ambiance and character of the land and people in this charming book are absolutely captivating. It makes you eagerly anticipate the next book in the sequence. Alexander McCall Smith's genuine love of Africa lures one to read more and more and his characters are both believable representative of real life.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 11120497
- Título
- The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency
- Autor
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Medium Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Reprint
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0349120994
- ISBN 13
- 9780349120997
- Editorial
- Abacus
- Lugar de publicación
- UK
- Fecha de publicación
- 2009
- Palabras clave
- BZDB5 Fiction; The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Crime; Fiction;
Términos de venta
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Trade Paperback
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
