Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0-316-72956-6 |
No of pages | 281 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Abacus |
Published Date | 13 Jun 2005 |
Alexander McCall Smith, born in 1948 in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) was for many years Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh and is now Emeritus Professor.
An expert on ethics and bioethics, he was educated at Christian Brothers College before earning a Ph.D. in law from the University of Edinburgh.
McCall Smith has taught law at Queen's University Belfast and co-founded and taught at the University of Botswana.
The author of over sixty books on a wide array of subjects, he gained worldwide recognition in 1999 for his No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. S
Ince that success, McCall Smith has become a full-time writer, with his books translated into forty-two languages.
Honored as a Commander of the British Empire and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his awards also include being named British Book Awards Author of the Year. McCall Smith lives in Edinburgh.
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Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh.
Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty and murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concert in the Usher Hall didn't fall. He was pushed.
With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander McCall Smith introduces a new and pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder, mayhem - and the mysteries of life. As her hero WH Auden maintained, classic detective fiction stems from a desire for an uncorrupted Eden which the detective,
as an agent of God, can return to us. But then Isabel, being a philosopher, has a thing or two to say about God as well.