This first novel in Alexander McCall Smithβs widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to βhelp people with problems in their lives.β Immediately upon setting up shop
The Great West Detective Agency
β Scribed by Lowry, Jackson
- Book ID
- 108600455
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 898 KB
- Series
- The Great West Detective Agency 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780698144507
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
On the run from some sore poker losers, gambler Lucas Stanton ducks into an office housing the "Great West Detective Agency"--followed by a client who mistakes him for a sleuth. Amanda Baldridge lives in one of Denver's more well-to-do neighborhoods, and someone has snatched Tovarich, her Russian wolfhound puppy.
Unable to resolve this case of mistaken identity--and unwilling to refuse the up-front cash from such a lovely patron--Lucas agrees to find the purloined pooch. But what he believes to be easy earnings for an absurd request becomes a riskier proposition when Lucas finds himself in the crosshairs of the wealthy and powerful Jubal Dunbar, who has already set his sights on Colorado's governorship--and on the missing mongrel...
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