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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

The series "No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency" really is very enjoyable and I guess I'm hooked. I won't be able to stop until I finish reading all the books in it.
In the fourth title in the series, "The Kalahari Typing School for Men", Alexander McCall Smith gives Mma Matsuki, Mma Ramotse's assistant detective, a bigger role. As always, there are sublime moments of humour and wisdom.

Synopsis

'Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reassess his life? Meanwhile, there are difficulties at the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where one of the apprentices has discovered the Lord, problems at home with the mysterious death of a hoopoe, and romantic complications when Mma Makutsi sets up a typing school for men ...

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