Mma Ramotswe thought of this encounter as she hauled herself out of bed and stretched. Glancing behind her, she saw the inert form of her husband under the blankets, his head half covered by the ...

It wasn't your typical stake-out. We had parked right outside the suspect's house, which stood in a wide tree-lined street in a quiet residential part of Gaborone, Botswana's capital. 'OK,' whispered ...

The hardest mysteries to unravel are those that are closest to home, which may be why Precious Ramotswe only takes on one professional detecting case in her fifth outing, "The Full Cupboard of Life." ...

Author Sir Alexander McCall Smith has said his knighthood is a “wonderful thing” and that his famous fictional detective Mma Precious Ramotswe would be “very happy” for him after being honoured by the ...

You have to have a heart of stone to not be absolutely smitten by Mma Ramotswe of Alexander McCall Smith’s The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency. She once fell in love with the wrong man, one who played ...

There are few more difficult tasks in literature than to create a character who is both morally good and interesting. In Precious Ramotswe, the traditionally built proprietress of the Number One ...

Perhaps you have taken a walking tour of CharlesDickens's London, or James Joyce's Dublin -- maybe even Franz Kafka's Prague. And are you casting about for a new literary destination? You need look no ...