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Tea time for the traditionally built / Alexander McCall Smith.
Mma Ramotswe's tiny white van has developed a disturbing noise. Her husband, deeming it beyond repair, sells the van and presents Mma with a new, characterless vehicle. Meanwhile, the unpleasant but glamorous Violet Sephotho is making a play for the fiance of Mma Makutsi. This cannot be allowed to happen.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780676979244
- ISBN: 9780676979237
- ISBN: 0676979238
- Physical Description: 212 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : Knopf Canada, c2009.
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| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. |
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- 17 of 17 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Elkford Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 17 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elkford Public Library | FC SMI (Text) | 35170000269142 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Random House, Inc.
The 10th! instalment in this infinitely enjoyable series finds the ever-charming, ever-resourceful Mma Ramostwe helping people, and vans, with problems in their lives.
Mma Ramotswe’s tiny white van has developed a disturbing noise. But having made numerous repairs to the van over the years, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni – her estimable husband and mechanic nonpareil – sells it without telling her and presents her with a new, characterless vehicle. So Mma Ramotswe sets out to recover the van. . . .
In the meantime, the thoroughly unpleasant, yet glamorous, Violet Sephotho (who earned 50 percent, at most!, in the final examinations of the Botswana Secretarial College) gets herself a job at the Double Comfort Furniture Store. Why? The reason is obvious: to make a play for Mma Makutsi’s fiancé, Mr Phuti Radiphuti.
And a proprietor of a local football team has enlisted the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency to help explain their dreadful losing streak: surely someone is fixing the games – it can’t just be a case of unskilled players . . . This is a job for Charlie, ever-apprentice at the Speedy Motors, to sniff out the competence of the players, as an assistant detective. . . .
