In the company of cheerful ladies
By: Alexander McCall Smith.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
Publisher: Pantheon Books; Pantheon
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization) -- Fiction.; Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Women private investigators -- Botswana -- Fiction.; Botswana -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Precious Ramotswe finds herself overly beset by problems. She is already busier than usual at the detective agency when added to her concerns are a strange intruder in her house on Zebra Drive and the baffling appearance of a pumpkin. And then there is Mma Makutsi, who decides to treat herself to dance lessons, only to be partnered with a man who seems to have two left feet. Nor are things running quite as smoothly as they usually do at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotswe's husband, the estimable Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, is overburdened with work even before one of his apprentices runs off with a wealthy woman. But what finally rattles Mma Ramotswe's normally unshakable composure is a visitor who forces her to confront a secret from her past." "All this unfolds against the sunlit background of Mma Ramotswe's beloved homeland, Botswana - a land of empty spaces, echoing skies, and an endless supply of soothing bush tea."--BOOK JACKET.