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In this fourth volume of the bestselling series - The No. 1 Ladies´ Detective Agency, the ever-popular Precious Ramotswe - Botswana´s leading, and only, female private detective - faces a new and unwanted problem: competition.

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Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent´ reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reassess his life? Meanwhile, there are difficulties at the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where one of the apprentices has discovered the Lord, problems at home with the mysterious death of a hoopoe, and romantic complications when Mma Makutsi sets up a typing school for men . . .

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Mma Ramotswe´s methods - and her results - are as unusual as the novels they inhabit . . . All this activity is much less about whodunnit than why NEW YORK TIMES

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McCall Smith, Alexander
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over eighty books on a wide array of subjects, including the award-winning The No.1 Ladies´ Detective Agency series. He is also the author of the Isabel Dalhousie novels and the world´s longest-running serial novel, 44 Scotland Street. His books have been translated into forty-six languages. Alexander McCall Smith is Professor Emeritus of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh and holds honorary doctorates from thirteen universities.

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