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Authors: Alexander Mccall Smith
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ALEXANDER McCALL
SMITH
THE NO. 1 LADIES’
DETECTIVE AGENCY
Alexander McCall Smith is a professor of
medical law at Edinburgh University. He was born in what is now known as
Zimbabwe and taught law at the University of Botswana. He is the author of over
fifty books on a wide range of subjects, including specialist titles such as
Forensic Aspects of Sleep
and
The Criminal Law of Botswana
,
children’s books such as
The Perfect Hamburger
, and a collection
of stories called
Portuguese Irregular Verbs
.
First Anchor Books Edition, August
2002
Copyright ©
1998 by Alexander
McCall Smith
All rights reserved under
International and Pan-American
Copyright Conventions. Published in the
United States by
Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York,
and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada
Limited,
Toronto. Originally published in softcover
in Scotland by Polygon,
Edinburgh, in 1998.
Anchor Books and colophon are
registered trademarks
of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McCall
Smith, R. A.
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency / Alexander
McCall Smith.
p. cm.
1. Women private investigators—Botswana—Fiction. 2.
Botswana—Fiction.
I. Title: Number One Ladies’
Detective Agency. II. Title.
PR6063.C326 N6 2002
821'.914—dc21
2002018694
eISBN: 978-1-4000-7765-6
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