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44 Scotland Street
Pat, a plain but likable 20-year-old in Edinburgh, Scotland, is taking a year off school for the second time to work in an art gallery run by Matthew,...

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
In this sixth book in the story of the Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency, detective Precious Ramotswe must use all her detecting skills to solve person...

Morality for Beautiful Girls
Precious Ramotswe's business is having financial difficulties and to save money, Precious and her fiancé, Mr. Matekoni, have decided to run both her d...

Portuguese Irregular Verbs
Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld is a noted scholar and author of Portuguese Irregular Verbs - a great hit with philologists. Unfortunately the...

Tears of the Giraffe
Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's first and only female private detective, has been handed her most difficult case to date: to find out what happened to a...

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The Full Cupboard of Life
Mma Ramotswe and her assistant, Mma Makutsi have been asked to help a wealthy woman who owns a chain of hair-braiding salons. She has four suitors bu...



The Kalahari Typing School for Men
The Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency has got competition and Mma Ramotswe and her assistant/secretary Mma Makutsi are both worried about the future o...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
When her father dies, Precious Ramotswe inherits a substantial herd of cattle which she sells to open a Detective Agency. The No. 1 Ladies Detective ...

The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Miss Ramotswe takes her inheritance from her father and opens up The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency in Botswana. With the help from her friends, a mec...

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