by Alexander McCall Smith · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9789170012457
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«Damernas detektivbyrå» is the mystery novel by Alexander McCall Smith, published by Månpocket in paperback (235 pages, in Swedish).
The work presents Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's first private detective, who with wit, common sense and a great ability to get people to open up solves the problems of ordinary people: runaway husbands, missing children, false fathers and stolen cars. A warm and humorous novel about African life and culture.
First installment of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Swedish edition of 2005 with translation by Peder Carlsson; original work from 1998. Martin Beck Award in 2004.
For readers of cozy mystery and feelgood fiction, with a charismatic protagonist and setting in Botswana.
Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was born and brought up in Southern Rhodesia and was formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and bioethics and served on related British and international committees. He has since become known as a fiction writer, with sales in English exceeding 40 million by 2010 and translations into 46 languages. He is known as the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The "McCall" derives from his great-great-grandmother Bethea McCall, who married James Smith at Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, in 1833.
