by Alexander McCall Smith · Edicions La Campana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495616449
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«La primera agència de dones detectives» is the mystery novel by Alexander McCall Smith (Edicions La Campana, paperback, 226 pages, in Catalan).
Mma Precious Ramotswe inherits some cows from her father and sells them to found in Botswana the first detective agency run by women. With a white van, two chairs, a telephone and an old typewriter, she solves cases with common sense and unorthodox methods, in a society where modernity and tradition coexist.
First instalment of the «No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency» series; this Catalan edition belongs to the Tocs collection (no. 36) and features a translation by Maria Roura.
For reading groups and readers of mystery novels and contemporary fiction looking for a story set 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.
