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“Deftly rendered … [with] endearingly eccentric characters.”
—Chicago Sun-Times

Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due—a quest that has a way of going hilariously astray.

Portuguese Irregular Verbs

978-1-4000-7708-3 (pbk)

978-0-307-42729-8 (eBook)

The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

978-1-4000-9508-7 (pbk)

978-0-307-42858-5 (eBook)

At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

978-1-4000-9509-4 (pbk)

978-0-307-42488-4 (eBook)

The Unusual Uses for Olive Oil
Coming in December 2012

978-0-307-27989-7 (pbk)

978-0-307-94866-3 (eBook)

Read them all …
“There is no end to the pleasure.”
—The New York Times Book Review

The first novel in the series that introduced us to Detective Precious Ramotswe

THE NO. 1 LADIES’
DETECTIVE AGENCY

Millions of readers have fallen in love with the traditionally built, eminently sensible, and cunning proprietor of the only ladies’ detective agency in Botswana.

Volume 1

978-1-4000-3477-2 (pbk) • 978-1-4000-9688-6 (mm)

978-0-375-42387-1 (hc) • 978-1-4000-7765-6 (eBook)

HBO
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Tie-ins:

978-0-307-45663-2 (pbk) • 978-0-307-45662-5 (mm)

A treat for young readers, introducing Precious’s first case as a young girl

THE GREAT CAKE MYSTERY

“A detective is born! Lucky young readers will now be able to make the acquaintance of the one and only Precious—Alexander McCall Smith’s beguiling and intrepid Botswanian sleuth, as she takes on her very first case. What a delightful, breezy read!”

—Mary Pope Osborne, bestselling author of
The Magic Tree House
series

978-0-307-74389-3 (pbk)

978-0-307-94944-8 (hc)

978-0-307-74390-9 (eBook)

TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is growing, and in the midst of solving her usual cases—from an unscrupulous maid to a missing American—sensible and cunning detective Mma Ramotswe ponders her impending marriage, promotes her talented secretary, and finds her family suddenly and unexpectedly increased by two.

Volume 2

978-1-4000-3135-1 (pbk)

978-1-4000-7767-0 (eBook)

MORALITY FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS

While trying to resolve some financial problems for her business, Mma Ramotswe finds herself investigating the alleged poisoning of a government official as well as the moral character of the four finalists of the Miss Beauty and Integrity contest. Other difficulties arise at her fiancé’s Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, as Mma Ramotswe discovers he is more complicated than he seems.

Volume 3

978-1-4000-3136-8 (pbk)

978-1-4000-7766-3 (eBook)