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| Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 3) | 
 enlarge | Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  92 reviews
Sales Rank: 12078
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 227
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 4.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 1400031362
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781400031368
ASIN: 1400031362
Publication Date: November 12, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Some wear on book from reading, spine creases, wear on binding and pages.
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| Customer Reviews:
 mma ramotswe and the heart of africa January 30, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
alexander mccall smith's series about the traditionally built mma ramotswe and the people in her life is truly a landmark: a quiet and humble landmark, but a landmark nonetheless. with great compassion and humor mccall smith describes the trials and errors of modern africa, seen through the eyes of a most formidable private detective. the series is written with a lot of humor, a great deal of humility, and a love for africa that is so strong that it seeps through the text and pours into the heart of the reader. it has been a long time since I last read something this enjoyable: mccall smith has truly captured the heart of africa in his series.
 Unbelievable and clumsy, PC junk November 29, 2005
3 out of 38 found this review helpful
Read the sample pages on Amazon...this junk would never have been printed in a non-PC world. The writing is clumsy, preachy, and ultimately uninteresting. How many women refer to a prospective fiance in their most private thoughts as Mr. J. L. B. Jones? This is the actual first sentence of the book...if you can make it through this without throwing the book down in disgust, you might like the rest of it too:
"Mma Ramotswe, the daughter of the late Obed Ramotswe of Mochudi, near Gaborone, Botswana, Africa, was the announced fiancee of Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, son of the late Pumphamilitse Matekoni, of Tlokweng, peasant farmer and latterly chief caretaker of the Railway Head Office."
Please. Life is too short for this.
3rd best of the series so far October 20, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am reading the Number One Ladies Detective series in order, and this is clearly the worst of the three I have read so far. However, that isn't a bad indictment on this charming and easy to read book.
In this book, our hero's assistant, who was promoted to Assistant Detective in Tears of the Giraffe, finds herself in an expanded role in the detective business, and in the automotive repair business too. For reasons not entirely explained, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni suffers from depression and takes a theraputic vacation, leaving his business in the hands of his fiancee and her trusted assistant. I was disappointed that we didn't find out more about the cause of the depression, but perhaps that is the cliffhanger to lead the reader to the next book, The Kalahari Typing School for Men.
There are two main detective tales in this book, one involving each of our two lady detectives. Each are solved with uncommon common sense from two of the smartest women in Africa.
Mma R Rules! October 14, 2005
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Oh, dear! I'm nearing the end of the series!!! Mr. McCall, please write another one quick! Mma Romatswe has become a friend I don't want to lose! This is the best series since Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys! Fit for all ages of readers 14-100! Oh, if we were all like Mma ... what a wonderful world it would be!
 Read the books in order, as they start off high and get more mundane September 30, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The first book in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series is a masterpiece, a work of folk tradition, a mystery, a story about the strength of strong-willed women, and a heart-warming tale. As Smith has written more books, they haven't been able to live up to the high bar set by the first. This is more a sleuth story and less of a piece of literature. The mysteries themselves are kind of boring and without the spicy resolutions of the first book. Precious never gets to employ her special brand of folk wisdom to solve a crime.
If you are just starting the series, read the books in order, and don't expect everything to live up to the first one.
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