Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

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Alexander McCall Smith: Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (2010, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

English language

Published Jan. 14, 2010 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

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978-0-349-11998-4
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The latest installment of this universally beloved and best-selling series finds Precious Ramotswe in personal need of her own formidable detection talents . . . . Mma Ramotswe's ever-ready tiny white van has recently developed a rather disturbing noise. Of course, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni--her estimable husband and one of Botswana's most talented mechanics--is the man to turn to for help. But Precious suspects he might simply condemn the van and replace it with something more modern. Can she find a way to save her old friend?In the meantime, Mma Makutsi discovers that her old rival Violet Sephotho, who could not have gotten more than fifty percent on her typing final at the Botswana Secretarial College, has set her sights on none other than Mma Makutsi's fiance, Phuti Radiphuti. Can Mma Ramotswe's intuition save the day? Finally, the proprietor of a local football team has enlisted the No. 1 Ladies' Detective …

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Subjects

  • Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
  • Ramotswe, precious (fictitious character), fiction
  • Botswana, fiction
  • Private investigators, fiction