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"creatures to which they are home.” McCall Smith is a prolific author of fiction, with several series to his credit. He writes at a prodigious rate: ""Even when travelling, he never loses a day, turning out between 2,000 and 3,000 words [a day] – but more like 5,000 words when at home in Edinburgh. His usual rate is 1,000 words an hour."" He has gained the most fame for his ""No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency"" series, featuring Mma Precious Ramotswe and Gaborone, Botswana. The first novel was published in 1998. By 2009, the No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series had"
"Adjoa Andoh Adjoa Andoh (born 14 January 1963) is a British film, television, stage and radio actress. She is known on the UK stage for lead roles at the RSC, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and the Almeida Theatre, and is a familiar face on British television, notably in two series of ""Doctor Who"" as companion Martha's mother Francine Jones, 90 episodes of the BBC's long-running medical drama ""Casualty"" as Staff Nurse (later Sister) Colette Griffiths (née Kierney) and a year in the BBC's ""EastEnders"". Andoh is the voice of Alexander McCall Smith's ""No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency"";"
"the work of both Indian and African relief printers. Firmin has two children and lives in Wales. Hannah Firmin Hannah May Firmin, (born 24 March 1956) is an illustrator and printmaker. She is notable for illustrating the book covers of Alexander McCall Smith's ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"" series for which she was awarded ""Book Cover of the Year"" at the British Book Awards 2004. Firmin is the second daughter of Peter Firmin, co-creator with the late Oliver Postgate, of the children's television programmes ""Pingwings"", ""Pogles' Wood"", ""Noggin the Nog"", ""Ivor the Engine"", ""Clangers"" and ""Bagpuss"". She grew up"
"supply, schools and recreational facilities. All the staff of the local administration expect District Administration are selected via Unified Local Government Services (ULGS) and the Ministry of Local Government is responsible for their training, deployment and career development. The district has no sub-districts. Kgatleng District Kgatleng is one of the districts of Botswana, coterminous with the homeland of the Bakgatla people. Its capital is Mochudi, the hometown of protagonist Precious Ramotswe in Alexander McCall Smith's popular ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"" series. According to the 2001 Census, Kgatleng had a population of 73,507 people. Kgatleng borders the North West"
"from the Wisconsin Public Radio program, ""To the Best of Our Knowledge"", the first novel """"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"", was a surprise hit [in Scotland], receiving two special Booker citations and a place on the Times Literary Supplement's International Books of the Year and the Millennium list."" The success in Scotland and the favorable critical notice did not speed publishers to release it in the USA. ""American publishers were slow to take an interest, and by the time ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"" was picked up by Pantheon Books, Smith had already written two sequels. The books"
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"Kgatleng District Kgatleng is one of the districts of Botswana, coterminous with the homeland of the Bakgatla people. Its capital is Mochudi, the hometown of protagonist Precious Ramotswe in Alexander McCall Smith's popular ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"" series. According to the 2001 Census, Kgatleng had a population of 73,507 people. Kgatleng borders the North West Province of South Africa in the south, and to the east it borders South Africa's Limpopo Province. Domestically, it borders South-East District in southwest, Kweneng District in the west, Central District in north. The tourist and game reserves in the region are Oodi"
"Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, ""The Mousetrap"", and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon."
"Mrs. Columbo Mrs. Columbo, later known as Kate Columbo, followed by Kate the Detective and then ultimately Kate Loves a Mystery is an American crime drama television series initially based on the wife of Lieutenant Columbo, the title character from the television series ""Columbo"". It was created and produced by Richard Alan Simmons and Universal Television for NBC, and stars Kate Mulgrew as a news reporter helping to solve crimes while raising her daughter. The series debuted in February 1979 as a spin-off to the successful mystery crime drama series ""Columbo"", focusing on Lieutenant Columbo's wife, who is never given"
"1987, A Coffin from the Past, Geoffrey Bles 1970, Chivers Press edition 1987. [9] Inspector Winter, Gwendoline Butler’s First Detective, www.booksmonthly.co.uk/winter.html (April 2011) [10] Tribute to Gwendoline Butler, www.booksmonthly.co.uk/jda.html (February 2014) Gwendoline Butler Gwendoline Butler, née Williams (19 August 1922 - 5 January 2013) was a British writer of mystery fiction and romance novels since 1956, she also used the pseudonym Jennie Melville. Credited for inventing the ""woman's police procedural"", is well known for her series of Inspector John Coffin novels as Gwendoline Butler, and by female detective Charmian Daniels as Jennie Melville. Born Gwendoline Williams on 19 August 1922"
"as a young detective in the Canadian TV series ""The Pinkertons"", played by Martha MacIsaac. Kate Warne Kate Warne (1833 – January 28, 1868) was the first female detective, in 1856, in the Pinkerton Detective Agency and the United States. Very little is known about Kate Warne prior to her working for Allan Pinkerton, except that she was born in Erin, Chemung County, New York and was a widow by age 23. Pinkerton, in his book ""The Spy of the Rebellion"" (1883), described her as: [a] commanding person, with clear cut, expressive features ... a slender, brown-haired woman, graceful in"
"Judith Adams at the Battersea Arts Centre; ""Damon and Pythias"" at the Globe and ""Helen"" at the RNT Studio. She has been Literary Manager of the Gate Theatre, Script Advisor at the National Theatre and Dramaturg at the Globe during its first season. She has translated plays for the Almeida and Chichester Festival Theatre. Sources: Gaynor Macfarlane Gaynor Macfarlane is a radio drama director and producer for BBC Radio Drama at Pacific Quay, Glasgow. Macfarlane directed the first, second, fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth and eleventh radio series of ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"". In the theatre, Macfarlane has directed"
"Sherlock Holmes"" of ""Timeless"", Sarah Sokolovic portrays Grace. Mary Grace Quackenbos Mary Grace Quackenbos Humiston (née Winterton) (1871–1948) was the first female Special Assistant United States Attorney. She was a graduate of the Law School of New York University and was a leader in exposing peonage in the American South. She was also known for a short time as ""Mrs. Sherlock Holmes"", starting with her work solving the cold case of Ruth Cruger who disappeared in New York in 1917. Quackenbos Humiston was born Mary Grace Winterton. Her father was Adoniram Judson Winterton, a well-to-do merchant and prominent in the"
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"Mary Grace Quackenbos Mary Grace Quackenbos Humiston (née Winterton) (1871–1948) was the first female Special Assistant United States Attorney. She was a graduate of the Law School of New York University and was a leader in exposing peonage in the American South. She was also known for a short time as ""Mrs. Sherlock Holmes"", starting with her work solving the cold case of Ruth Cruger who disappeared in New York in 1917. Quackenbos Humiston was born Mary Grace Winterton. Her father was Adoniram Judson Winterton, a well-to-do merchant and prominent in the laywork of the Baptist church. She was a"
"Gabrielle Lord Gabrielle Craig Lord (born 26 February 1946) is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime. She has published a wide range of writing including reviews, articles, short stories and non-fiction, but she is best known for her psychological thrillers. Gabrielle Lord was born in Sydney. She was educated at Kincoppal Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart and the University of New England in Armidale, where she obtained an Honours degree in Victorian Literature. She worked as a teacher and as a public servant with the Commonwealth Employment Service. In 1978, with"
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"the age of 64 on the TV series """", appearing in an episode called ""Icarus"". In 2011 Smith is working on a crime novel set in London. ""I've been working on a detective story that starts at the St Giles in the Fields church in London for the last two years"", she told NME adding that she ""loved detective stories"" having been a fan of British fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and U.S. crime author Mickey Spillane as a girl. Part of the book will be set in Gothenburg, Sweden. Following the death of her husband in 1994, Smith began devoting"
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"trust and mercy but also tolerance. Ramotswe's musings are as insightful as they are understated: ""It's interesting how we can look at things and think we see something, when it really isn't there at all."" Entertaining and enlightening, Smith's beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency saga is simply precious."" The ""Booklist Review"" says that this series ""continue[s] to resonate with poignancy, wisdom, and wit"" and considers this series to be McCall Smith's ""love letter to a country whose salubrious climate is matched by the warmth and humanity of its people."" ""Publishers Weekly"" reviewed the audio book issued at the same"
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"awkward and wears tight skirts. But she brings something fresh in among those hackneyed male detectives."" Guest cast in this series include Jason Durr as Alan Daniels; Emma Pollard as Melissa Stephens; and Malcolm Storry as John McDowell. ""The Daily Telegraph"" described the series as ""Lynda La Plante's younger, sassier successor to ""Prime Suspect""."" Guest cast in this series include Ty Glaser as Louise Pennel; Edward MacLiam as Richard Reynolds; Sylvia Syms as Mrs. Hedges; and Simon Williams as Charles Wickenham. This series was partly based on a true story, known as the Black Dahlia murder. The series was reviewed"
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"Did I Get Married?"" The next year, in 2008, Scott appeared as Precious Ramotswe in Anthony Minghella's film adaption of Alexander McCall Smith's series of books ""The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"" playing a detective. Scott then filmed additional episodes for the series in Botswana in late 2008, co-funded by the BBC and HBO, that were broadcast as a seven-part series on BBC1 in March 2009; and on HBO, which debuted March 29, 2009. BBC and HBO are contemplating whether to produce a second round of episodes of the series. In 2010, she voiced Storm of the X-Men on the"