![]() Artificial Limbs: Phuti loses a foot in a car accident, but this doesn't bother him overmuch as he gets a replacement quickly. ![]() Artifact Title: Repeatedly subverted: Mma Ramostwe and Makutsi never consider adding any male staff on payroll as it would no longer be the No.It seems that everyone in Botswana speaks stilted, formal, old-fashioned, and rather pompous English. Antiquated Linguistics: Can come across like this to native English speakers.A Minor Kidroduction: The first few chapters of the first book are from the perspective of Precious' late father, Obed Ramotswe.All Women Love Shoes: While Mma Ramotswe is content with her own shoes, Mma Makutsi has enough love for shoes for the two of them.Her response is to help pay for her tuition. Always Someone Better: Mma Maktusi learns someone passed the secretarial examination with 98%.so Violet could make fun of Grace's clothes. Alpha Bitch: Violet Sephotho and Grace Makutsi's first interaction at the college involved Violet telling Grace to come talk to her Girl Posse.Aerith and Bob: Many characters have English first names with Setswana last names, such as our heroines Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi.The administrator knew all along, but asks Mma Ramotswe not to say anything as the victims were already old and without kin, and doesn't want to burden the cleaning lady with that knowledge. Accidental Murder: Three hospital deaths were caused by the cleaning lady unplugging the ventilator to run the floor buffer.To the Land of Long Lost Friends (2019).The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine (2015).The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (2013).The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection (2012).The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (2011).Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (2009).In The Company of Cheerful Ladies (2004 – also known as The Night-Time Dancer).The Kalahari Typing School for Men (2002).The writing was easy to understand and the plot was interesting, which kept me turning every page until the book was over. Some of the mysteries are really quite funny, while others can be a bit scary!Īlthough I picked this book up from the adult section, I am sure that young readers will also enjoy this book and I recommend the entire series to you. Sometimes, while reading, I'd get so involved with the case Mma Ramostwe was solving that I wouldn't leave my chair until the case got over. I really enjoyed this book, I found it thoroughly entertaining. This time, her marriage will not be a mistake. Matekoni, proposes to her, and she says yes. Later on in the book, her good friend, Mr. Probably the funniest one is 'The Boyfriend' case. Ramotswe encounters lots of different cases in the book. It will be hard for me to continue with the storytelling because Ms. She named it The No.1 Ladies's Detective Agency. She married a trumpeter, Note Mokoti, but sadly, in the end, they were divorced when she got sick of getting beaten up by him.Īfter her father died, she used the money from their cattle farm to buy a small building and start her own little detective agency. She grew up to be a sensible, equal minded, smart and quite well educated woman. She didn't have a mother and was brought up by her father and her father's cousin. Anyway, back to the plot, enough with the blabbering! Precious (silly name, don't you think, for a grown up woman! I suppose it's a good nickname.) Ramotswe has had ups and downs in her life.
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