false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255654410m/6359724.jpg 4285768 17 <b>The tenth installment of this universally beloved and best-selling series finds Precious Ramotswe in personal need of her own formidable detection talents.<br></b><br>Mma Ramotswe&#8217;s ever-ready tiny white van has recently developed a rather disturbing noise. Of course, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni&#8211;-her estimable husband and one of Botswana&#8217;s most talented mechanics&#8211;&#8211;is the man to turn to for help. But Precious suspects he might simply condemn the van and replace it with something more modern. And as usual, her suspicions are well-founded: without telling her, he sells the van and saddles his wife with a new, characterless vehicle . . . a situation that must be remedied. And so she sets out to find the van, unaware, for the moment, that it has already been stolen from the man who bought it, making recovery a more complicated process than she had expected.<br><br>In the meantime, all is not going smoothly for Mma Makutsi in her engagement to Mr Phuti Radiphuti (to make matters worse, Violet Sephotho, who could not have gotten more than fifty percent on her typing final at the Botswana Secretarial School, is involved). And finally, the proprietor of a local football team has enlisted the No. 1 Ladies&#8217; Detective Agency to help explain its dreadful losing streak: surely someone must be fixing the games, it can&#8217;t just be a case of unskilled players.<br><br>And as we know, there are few mysteries that can&#8217;t be solved and fewer problems that can&#8217;t be fixed when Precious Ramotswe puts her mind to it. 6479313 21 4 2009 Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #10) total:1566|5:419|4:766|3:347|2:31|1:3| 1566 6265 2403 503 3 2 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 10:02:54 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 10:16:26 -0700 2009
This is tenth in a series; I didn't really feel hampered by the lack of previous knowledge about ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 19:22:10 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 19:48:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 08:27:30 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 08:28:12 -0700 2009
In this one Precious is investigating a case for the owner of the town’s football team...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 12:06:12 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 12:07:22 -0700 2009 Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, the latest installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. This time, she is investigating a flagging football (soccer) team and facing the possible demise of her little white van. Meanwhile, her as...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jul 15 06:22:18 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 06:23:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jun 29 18:32:08 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 18:40:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 15 19:36:17 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 19:49:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 12:29:24 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 12:29:24 -0700 2009
The latest and tenth installment in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith, we find the owner and proprietor of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Mma Precious Ramotswe is approached by the proprietor of a local football team to help him discover...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 12:33:13 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 12:49:34 -0700 2009
The main mystery that Precious must solve this time is why a local football team is suddenly losing all of its games when, in the past, it had been a ve...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 20:52:47 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 08:42:29 -0700 2009 1
"Much as Mma Ramotswe admired Clovis Andersen's The Principles o...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 13:20:35 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 13:20:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 10:38:14 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 18:34:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 16:01:33 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 11:28:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 11:08:46 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 08:06:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 20:33:44 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 12:46:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 15:47:47 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 14:15:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 22 09:30:56 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 12:23:47 -0700 2009 Scarecrow, I have to laugh at the assignment of McCall Smith and Connelly both to the mystery section (at least in our library). Nothing terrible really happens to the honorable women of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. Nobody slugs them into unconsciousness or ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 12:55:42 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 13:11:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 02:15:17 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 02:16:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 19:36:19 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 12:38:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6359724