Things go badly awry for Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni when he sets out to do something special for their adopted daughter, Motholeli, and it is up to his wife, Mma Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, to extricate him from his problems. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.
Precious Ramotswe, the humane and insightful detective of Alexander McCall Smith's beloved and bestselling NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE series, returns for an eighth mystery, this one revolving around the mysterious deaths at a local hospital. As always in Smith's fiction the delicate interplay of psychology and culture is masterfully and humorously articulated.
- Genre: Mystery + Crime, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Women, Peoples + Cultures, Conflicts + Dualities, Types of Characters
- Publisher: Anchor Books
- Pages: 213
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: March 11, 2008
- Date Published: March 11, 2008
- Author: Alexander McCall Smith