5 must-read mystery books like The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Summary & Study Guide by BookRags

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Summary & Study Guide

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4.46

Format: None pages, Nook

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Cover of The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4) by Alexander McCall Smith

1. The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.01

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Life is never without its problems… read more

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"The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father."

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)

"That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations."

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)

"A traditional house smelled of wood smoke, the earth, and of thatch; all good smells, the smell of life itself."

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)

"She had a great respect for books herself, and she wished that she had read more. One could never read enough. Never."

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)

Cover of Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2) by Alexander McCall Smith

2. Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.98

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Older cover edition of 9780349116655. In 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency… read more

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"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

"It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

"Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

"Perhaps if you don't know there's a gap, you don't worry about it. If you were a millipede, a tshongololo , crawling along the ground would you look at the birds and worry about not having wings? Pro…"

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

Cover of The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) by Arthur Conan Doyle, Anne Perry, Sidney Paget, Maria Buitoni Duca

3. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Anne Perry , Sidney Paget , Maria Buitoni Duca

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this, one of the most famous of Doyle's mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage gho… read more

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"The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?"

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

"Watson: "You may be right." Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

Cover of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Jeremy Tambling

4. David Copperfield

By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling

4.03

Format: 882 pages, Paperback

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more

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"Trifles make the sum of life. "

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"

-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

5. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

5.00

Format: None pages,

Precious Ramotswe has only just set up shop as Botswana's No.1 (and only) lady detective when she i… read more

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6. A Study in Scarlet

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.57

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

'There's a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is t… read more

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7. The Essex Serpent

By: Sarah Perry

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scienti… read more

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Cover of Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3) by Heather   Morris

8. Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)

By: Heather Morris

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A promise to stay together. An unbreakable bond. A fierce will to survive. From international … read more

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"Looking at these photos in this special light we have remembered the past without grief and if we can do that, we can also look ahead without fear."

-Heather Morris, Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)

Cover of The Promise by Damon Galgut

9. The Promise

By: Damon Galgut

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more

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"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

10. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Summary & Study Guide

By: BookRags

4.46

Format: None pages, Nook

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