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The Double Comfort Safari Club / Alexander McCall Smith.
When the two ladies of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency arrive at the Okavango Delta, the natural beauty of their homeland is teeming with wildlife. But they can't help being drawn into a world filled with other wildlife: rival safari operators, discontented guides, grumpy hippopotamuses. On top of that, the date has still not been set for Mma Makutsi and Phuti Radiphuti's wedding and the impossible has happened: one of Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni's apprentices has gotten married.
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- ISBN: 9780307375209 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 030737520X (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (211 pages)
- Publisher: Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, [2010]
- Copyright: ©2010
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- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2010 February #2
Mma Precious Ramotswe's 11th full cupboard of cases takes her from her office in Gaborone into a safari camp to track down the elusive heir to an unexpected legacy.On her deathbed, Estelle Grant, late of St. Paul, Minn., amended her will to leave $3,000 to the guide who'd been kind to her on a safari to the Okavango Delta, but she couldn't remember the name of the guide or the camp. Can the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, 2009, etc.) locate the beneficiary and inform him of his good fortune? Only if Mma Ramotswe can find the time to spare from the rest of her caseload. Her old friend, senior midwife Constance Mateleke, is convinced that her inattentive husband is carrying on an affair and wants the agency to find evidence she can use in her divorce proceedings. Government biologist Robert Monageng Kereleng, whose family business has already been plundered by an employee who fled to South Africa, wants Mma Ramotswe to help him recover the house he'd unwisely deeded to an avaricious girlfriend who has no intention of sharing it with him. And Mma Grace Makutsi, the agency's secretary and assistant detective, has problems of her own: Not only has her fiancé, furniture salesman Phuti Radiphuti, been hospitalized with a serious injury, but his territorial aunt won't let Mma Makutsi near him.All these problems are solved with Mma Ramotswe's customary grace and wisdom, though it would take a sharp reader to see which of them will prove the most intransigent. Copyright Kirkus 2010 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2009 December #1
Trouble and death at a safari lodge lead Mma. Ramotswe and Mma. Makutsi to Botswana's Okavango Delta in this 11th in the best-selling "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series. With a 12-city tour. Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. - LJ Express Reviews : LJ Express Reviews
The prolific Smith is back with the 11th entry in his popular "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series. These stories have mostly been a delight to read, but now their author seems to be running out of steam. He apparently set out to create an adventure set at a Botswana safari camp but lost interest along the way with a half-hearted plot that never seems to go anywhere. By the time Precious Ramotswe and her sidekick Grace Makutsi finally get out to the wildlife preserve, the book is almost over. What small problem there is at the safari lodge is resolved by a very convenient coincidence. Verdict No one expects these gentle stories to be thrillers, but this novel definitely needs more suspense and more focus. The two lady detectives are as likable as ever, but if Smith plans to keep writing this series, he needs to find more interesting work for these two indomitable characters. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 12/09.]-Leslie Patterson, Brown Univ. Lib., Providence Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2010 February #2
As in 2009's Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, the previous entry in this beguiling, bestselling series, a personal crisis for one of the leads, rather than a mystery, drives the plot of Smith's superb 12th novel set in Botswana featuring his infinitely understanding sleuth, Precious Ramotswe. When a delivery truck backs into Phuti Radiphuti, the fianc of Mma Ramotswe's prickly and insecure assistant, Grace Makutsi, and crushes his leg against a wall, Phuti's rude aunt won't allow Grace to visit her beloved in the hospital. Meanwhile, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency tries to help the executor of an American woman, who wished to leave some money to a kind tour guide, but couldn't recall the guide's name. The resolution to the problem of another client, who was cheated out of his home by a gold-digger, might strike some as unduly fortuitous, but it makes sense within the framework of these books, which are more about humanity than logic. (Apr.)
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