by Alexander McCall Smith · Abacus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349118680
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«The Sunday Philosophy Club» is the mystery novel by Alexander McCall Smith, published by Abacus in hardback (297 pages, in English).
Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and editor of a journal of applied ethics, witnesses the fatal fall of a young man in an Edinburgh concert hall and decides to investigate on her own, convinced it was not an accident. The novel follows her inquiries amid moral dilemmas, with the help of her Sunday philosophy club and the pulse of Scottish social life.
First installment of the series featuring Isabel Dalhousie, also known as «An Isabel Dalhousie Novel». The English edition corresponds to the one published by Abacus in 2005.
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.
