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Law professor Alexander McCall Smith had already written more than 50 books before inventing the heroine for his No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series: Precious Ramotswe, the only female P.I. in Botswana. The books are as unconventional as their good-humored heroine, who relies on common sense -- and a few tidbits gleaned from Agatha Christie -- to solve her cases.
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Fact File
| Name:
Alexander McCall Smith
Also Known As:
R. A. McCall Smith
Current Home:
Edinburgh, Scotland
Place of Birth:
Zimbabwe
| | Awards:
Two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations, 1999; International Books of the Year and the Millennium, Times Literary Supplement, 1999 for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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| | Espresso Tales
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Alexander McCall Smith, Alexander McCall-Smith
In his latest offering, Smith brings all the warmth of his extraordinary No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books and the Sunday Philosophy Club series to this second witty novel in the series chronicling the lives of the residents of 44 Scotland Street in Edinburgh. Originally serialized in The Scotsman, 44 Scotland Street is already an international phenomenon.
44 Scotland Street
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Alexander McCall Smith
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Hollywood Calling
| Anthony Minghella, director of The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley, bought the film rights to The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in order to make a television series about the heroine.
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| | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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Alexander McCall Smith, R. A. McCall Smith, Alexander McCall Smith
Smith's first novel introduces Botswanan detective Precious Ramotswe -- whose agency's assets are two desks, two chairs, a white van, a typewriter, a teapot, and the detective's own curiosity and good sense.
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R. K. Narayan
When asked in a Q&A with his publisher what comparisons his Precious Ramotswe books tend to draw, Smith admitted, "Some people say that they remind them of the novels of that great Indian writer R.K. Narayan, which is very flattering, but I suppose I can see the similarities in the world which his and my books portray."
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