01699cam a2200253 a 4500 PH-MaWHO PH-MaWHO 20241108112738.0 020316r20022000nyu 000 0 eng 9780349116655 0349116652 DLC eng WPRO Library C#P DLC McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- 674808 Tears of the giraffe / London : Abacus, 2003. 217 pages ; 21 cm. No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency ; bk. 2 In 1999 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. Tears of the Giraffe takes us further into the life of the engaging and sassy Precious Ramotswe, the owner and detective of Botswana's only Ladies' detective agency. Among her cases are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids and a challenge to resolve a mother's pain for her son, who is long lost on the African plains. Mma Ramotswe's own impending marriage to that most gentlemanly of men, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, the promotion of her secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective and new additions to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales. Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character) Fiction. 674814 Women private investigators Botswana Fiction. 674816 No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization) Fiction. 674815 Botswana Fiction. 674817 Detective and mystery fiction. lcsh 674598 17802 17802 0 0 0 0 FIC WPRO WPRO Mez 2024-07-05 donation 0 FIC MCC Number bk.2 FIC0063 2024-05-20 00:00:00 MONO