by Alexander McCall Smith · Little, Brown · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780316729567
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«The Sunday Philosophy Club» is the mystery novel by Alexander McCall Smith, published by Little, Brown in hardback (288 pages, in English).
Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, hosts a philosophical discussion club at her home in Edinburgh. When she witnesses a young man's fall during a concert at the Usher Hall, she suspects it was not an accident and decides to investigate, venturing into a moral labyrinth about truth and ethics.
First novel in the Isabel Dalhousie series, set in Edinburgh. Originally published in 2004.
For readers of mystery novels and contemporary fiction who want to follow an amateur investigator in a Scottish setting.
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.
