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Frank Swinton is an adventurer, a man determined to raise himself above the drudgery of a nine-to-five job.

Lady Ancella Winn, after the death of her father, goes to Paris as a nurse-companion and falls in love with her mistress's son.

While on a secret mission to the fanatical leader of a holy war against Imperial Russia, Lord Athelston becomes involved in an escape from the Sultan's harem.

Lucretia is forced to marry the Marquis of Marlyn. Together they encounter dangerous adventures in France as they rescue Englishmen from the hands of Napoleon.

While both Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi are puzzled by prophetic dreams, life goes on at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

Danger hits close to home when a cobra is found in Mma Ramotswe's office.

This Isabel Dalhousie tale finds the ethical philosopher doing background checks on several candidates for the same job. In the process, Isabel learns quite a bit about herself, as well.

Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi travel to the Okavango Delta to visit a safari lodge beset by unexplained events.

Between glances in the mirror, vain Bruce contemplates a new career as a wine merchant. His troubled flatmate Pat finds herself looking for true love at a nudist picnic.

Mma Ramotswe has been engaged to Mr. J.L.B Matekoni for quite some time, and still they have no wedding date. But she doesn't want to be too pushy, for Mr. J.L.B.

Mma "Precious" Ramotswe's comfortable existence as the only detective in Botswana is rattled when a certain Mr. Buthelezi opens the Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency. Mr.

While Precious Ramotswe travels to a game reserve to investigate the death of an American tourist, trouble brews back home.

Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher by training, and an amateur sleuth by choice. When a young man falls from a balcony to his death, Isabel does not believe it was an accident.

The ever-delightful, insatiably curious Edinburgh philosopher and amateur sleuth returns to take on a case unlike any she's had before-this one with paranormal implications-in the tenth instal

Mma Ramotswe's attention is focused on a pesky disciplinary problem at her adopted daughter's school--while Grace Makutsi adjusts to wedded bliss and the famed Clovis Andersen arrives in