by Alexander McCall Smith · Pearson Education ESL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405881982
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«The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency» is the graded mystery reader by Alexander McCall Smith, from Pearson Education ESL, paperback, 64 pages, in English.
The story follows Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only private detective, a kind and perceptive woman who runs the agency of the title. With the help of her secretary Mma Makutsi and her friend Mr JLB Matekoni, she solves cases such as the disappearance of a husband and that of a child.
Second revised edition, published in March 2008. Level 3 of Pearson English Graded Readers; corresponds to the first instalment of the series featuring Mma Ramotswe.
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language and at readers who want to practise the language through a mystery story with graded language.
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.
