The first book in the multi-million copy bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency seriesThe one where it all beginsMma Ramotswe is the proud proprietor of the finest ladies' detective agency in all Botswana (also the only one).She spends her time, with a cup of redbush tea beneath the acacia tree, waiting for clients.When they come along, whether it is to enquire after a missing spouse or check the identity of a long-lost father, it is not The Principles of Private Detection that helps her to solve cases but old-fashioned common sense and a warm-hearted understanding of the fallibility of human nature - especially that of men. 'Among the greatest comfort-reads of all time' Sunday Times'Jolly and exhilarating' Sunday Telegraph'The Miss Marple of Botswana' New York Times Book Review'A publishing phenomenon' Guardian