Mr Patel: Very rich retired businessman in Gaborone, a client with a 16-year-old daughter who worries him.Happy Bapetsi: A client who never met her father is confronted by a man who claims that role, and her care of him.The new detective agency is not far from his garage. He has known Mma Ramotswe for years, as her father was friends with his uncle. Mr JLB Matekoni: Auto mechanic with his own business, Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors.She earned the highest score from the Secretarial College, at 97 percent. Mma Grace Makutsi: Hired as secretary to the detective agency based on the college's reference.Note is cruel to her, and leaves her pregnant after a few months of marriage. Note Mokote: The musician who catches the eye of Precious after she has been living with the cousin near Gaborone, working in the husband's firm.Then, she is asked to marry a second time, to a man successful in his own business running buses in Botswana. She raises Precious until she is about 10 years old. The cousin: Woman, a cousin of Obed Ramotswe, who is left by her first husband because she cannot have children.He dies at age 62, when his daughter is 34. He loves his daughter, focussing his life on her when his wife dies not long after he returns from the mines to live in Mochudi full time with her and their daughter. Obed Ramotswe: Father of Precious Ramotswe, and wise breeder of cattle.Prior to that time, she lived with her father, save for a brief and painful marriage to a musician. Mma Ramotswe: She starts the first detective agency in Botswana when she is 34. She hires Mma Makutsi from the Secretarial College and the first client appears directly. She sells some of the good herd of cattle to set up her office in Gaborone and buy a house there. Her father's herd is large, and the price was good. She heads back to Mochudi to be with her father until he dies from the lung disease he got in the mines, just after she is 34. Once she must see a doctor for treatment after a beating. He beats his wife as part of his lovemaking, for any reason. Precious is already pregnant at the marriage, but Note is not pleased at being a father. Soon he proposes marriage to her, going to her father for his permission. On one bus trip she meets a boy, a musician named Note Mokote. Each weekend she takes a bus home to Mochudi to see her father. She takes a job in the firm, and uncovers thievery by another employee, defrauding the company. He has a business running buses, and is doing well. She lives with her cousin and cousin's husband. Her father wants her to pursue more education, but she wants to stop school and does. Precious continues at school until she is 16. The cousin taught her well, caring for her until a second man asked her to marry him, when Precious is about 10 years old. A cousin, left by her husband because she was barren, came to help him raise his daughter Precious. Not long after he returned, his wife died. He was wise with the money he earned in the mines, using it to buy cattle and slowly grow his herd, watched by a cousin while he was in the mines. He had married a year or two earlier, and their daughter was born in Mochudi. She is the only child of Obed Ramotswe, a man who worked long years in the mines in South Africa, until one day he witnessed a crime, and knew he had to leave the mines. She is in Gaborone the capital of Botswana, a place of which she is proud. She has a secretary, and she has clients. Mma Ramotswe sits in her office, the Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency. The series did not catch on in England until the fifth novel in the series, evidence of a cultural difference between the two countries. After two more novels in the series were published, all three were published in the US to much acclaim in 2002, for example, Publishers Weekly called it a "little gem of a book". The novel was first published in Scotland, where it gained a following. She solves three cases, and meets important new people, her secretary Grace Makutsi and good friend, the excellent mechanic, Mr JLB Matekoni. When her father dies, she moves from Mochudi to Gaborone, the capital city, to begin her detective agency. Precious tells her own story, from birth, and her father tells his story. She hires a secretary and solves cases for her clients. The novel introduces the Motswana Mma Precious Ramotswe, who begins the first detective agency in Botswana, in the capital city Gaborone, after her beloved father dies. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is the first detective novel in the eponymous series by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, first published in 1998.
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