TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　“The Miss Marple of Botswana.” –The New York Times Book
Review

　　“Smart and sassy . . . Precious’ progress is charted in
passages that have the power to amuse or shock or touch the heart,
sometimes all at once.” –Los Angeles Times

　　“I haven’t read anything with such unalloyed pleasure for a
long time.” –Anthony Daniels, The Sunday Telegraph

　　Precious Ramotswe is the eminently sensible and cunning
proprietor of the only ladies’ detective agency in Botswana. In
Tears of the Giraffe she tracks a wayward wife, uncovers an
unscrupulous maid, and searches for an American man who disappeared
into the plains many years ago. In the midst of resolving
uncertainties, pondering her impending marriage to a good, kind
man, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, and the promotion of her talented
secretary (a graduate of the Botswana Secretarial College, with a
mark of 97 per cent), she also finds her family suddenly and
unexpectedly increased by two.

　　Alexander McCall Smith is a professor of medical law at
Edinburgh University. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe
and taught law at the University of Botswana. He is the author of
over fifty books on a wide range of subjects, including specialist
titles such as Forensic Aspects of Sleep and The Criminal
Law of Botswana, children’s books such as The Perfect
Hamburger, and a collection of stories called Portuguese
Irregular Verbs.