The No. 1 Ladies' detective agency
By: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Random House; Anchor Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781400034772
Description: 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.