Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (27 page)

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, and the 44 Scotland Street series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has served on many national and international bodies concerned with bioethics. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and was a law professor at the University of Botswana. He lives in Scotland.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
either are the product of the authors imagination or are used
fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events,
or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2009 by Alexander McCall Smith

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by
Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Originally published in Great Britain by Little, Brown,
an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, London.

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of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McCall Smith, Alexander, [date]
Tea time for the traditionally built / Alexander McCall Smith.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-37810-1
1. Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women
private investigators—Botswana—Fiction. 3. Botswana—Social life
and customs—Fiction. 4. No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary
organization)—Fiction. I. Title.
PR
6063.
C
326
T
38 2009   823′.914—dc22   200900077

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