TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCall Smith,Alexander
TI  - Tears of the giraffe
T2  - No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
SN  - 9780349116655
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Abacus
KW  - Ramotswe, Precious
KW  - Women private investigators
KW  - Botswana
KW  - Fiction
KW  - No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization)
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcsh
N2  - 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
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