by Alexander McCall Smith · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349144108
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«How to Raise an Elephant» is the mystery novel by Alexander McCall Smith, published by Little, Brown in hardcover (256 pages, in English).
Precious Ramotswe, founder of the Gaborone agency, observes neighbors in a stormy relationship while a distant cousin asks for help and Charlie behaves strangely. The investigation leads to a night expedition and the idea of looking at every situation from several angles, with Mma Potokwani's fruit cake in the background.
This is the 21st installment in the «No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency» series, featuring Mma Ramotswe in Gaborone.
For readers of light mystery and humor, and for those who enjoy Mma Ramotswe's adventures.
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.
