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In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency)
by: Alexander Mccall Smith

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781400075706
ISBN: 140007570X
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: March 14, 2006
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: March 14, 2006
Sales Rank: 11082
Studio: Anchor

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In this latest, widely praised addition to the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the charming and ever-resourceful Precious Ramotswe finds herself faced with new challenges—and intriguing surprises.

Precious is busier than usual at the detective agency when she discovers an intruder in her house on Zebra Drive—and perhaps even more baffling--a pumpkin on her porch. Her associate, Mma Makutsi, also has a full plate. She's taken up dance lessons, only to be partnered with a man with two left feet. And at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where Mr J.L.B. Matekoni is already overburdened with work, one of his apprentices has run off with a wealthy older woman. But what finally rattles Mma Ramotswe’s normally unshakable composure is a visitor who forces her to confront a difficult secret from her past.

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- Warm, witty, and wise
Sixth book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

Mma Ramotswe is dismayed to see the erosion of the traditional values of Botswana as modern life becomes more and more about material possessions. She does her best to set a good example, but falls short from time to time. Now married to Mr. J.L.B. Matekone, Mma Ramotswe continues to run the detective agency while many issues in her personal life cause her worry. A strange man breaks into her house, someone leaves her a pumpkin, her van is stolen, and her mean ex-husband returns to Gabarone, bent on blackmail. Soon after Charlie the apprentice storms out of the garage, Mma Ramotswe literally runs right into a solution to the sudden labor shortage. While following Charlie, she almost hits a man with her tiny white van. Enter the marvelous Mr. Polopetsi.

While Mma Ramotswe struggles with her personal life, Mma Makutsi starts to live ... Read More

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- Not much of a mystery
After I read Alexander Mccall Smith's very funny Op-Ed piece "The Really Terrible Orchestra" in the NY Times, I decided to try one of his books. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No.1 Ladies Detective Agency) was a real bore. No actual story line and certainly no mystery. I will pass on the rest of his books. MER

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- Absolute delight!
This is the sixth book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The author does a fine job in giving the reader appropriate background so that she can follow the story even if she has not read the first 5 books in the series. I have read all the previous ones. I highly recommend all the books in the series. If you have been following this series, you may find parts of this one repetitive. I suppose with any series the author has to balance appealing to new and existing readers.

A lot happens in Cheerful Ladies, so you will not be bored with the plot. I found Cheerful Ladies to be one of the better ones in the series. Smith has the amazing gift of taking the reader to an exotic land and yet his stories are very familiar. His prose is extremely clear and simple and yet the content is thought provoking and deep. With clever subplots, Smith is able to bridge Western and African cultures.

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- Delight in Cheerful Ladies!
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, the sixth book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith continues to delight the reader, by allowing us to visit the enchanted world of Botswana through the eyes of the number one lady detective Precious Ramotswe. We peak into a foreign world which seems oddly familiar. It is a world we knew during days of Andy Griffith and Leave It to Beaver. This time however we see the world through African eyes.

Precious Ramotswe, is a Botswanan lady of traditional build and traditional values, even so she is modern enough to establish her own detective agency, something unheard of in Botswana. Precious is a shrewd woman with an innate sense of right and wrong . She holds to traditional Botswanan values, while solving any puzzle or predicament which her clients may present her.

She is not with out help and support. Precious is newly married ... Read More

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