The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe--with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi--navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea.

This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to "help people with problems in their lives." Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors.

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency received two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the International Books of the Year and the Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 02/06/2003
ISBN: 9781400034772
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.34w x 0.68d
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 05/02/2003 pg. 73
Booksense '76 Reading Grp 04 05/01/2004 pg. 1
Newsweek 03/30/2009 pg. 56
Ebony 06/01/2009 pg. 45

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 68643 / No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Reading Level: 5.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 10