Alexander McCall Smith on His No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 25, 2011

Best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith talks about the latest installment in his beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party. It tells of the latest adventures of Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s No. 1 Lady Detective, and her assistant Grace Makutsi.

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