Title: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
First published: 1998
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.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.
Subjects: Fiction, Precious Ramotswe (Fictitious character), Women private investigators, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization), Private investigators, Large type books, Detective and mystery stories, Precious Ramotswe (Fictional character), Large print books, Missing children, Mystery fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Botswana, fiction, Ramotswe, precious (fictitious character), fiction, Detectives, Contemporary Women, Humorous, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2009-04-12, New York Times bestseller, Femmes détectives, Romans, nouvelles, Powieść kryminalna angielska, Tłumaczenia polskie, Autorzy szkoccy, Detektivin, Roman, Detectives privados, Novela, Ramotswe, Precious (Personaje literario), Investigadoras privadas, Ramotswe, Precious (Personnage fictif)
Places: Botswana, Africa
People: Precious Ramotswe (Fictitious character)
Time periods: 1990-