Anchor, New York, 2002, reprint.  ISBN 1-4000-3477-9.  Trade soft cover, 235 pages.  Very good plus; touch of wear at corners, light reading creases along front spine edge; binding sound; interior clean and unmarked with very lightly tanned pages.  ‘This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s 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 “help people with the problems in their lives.”  Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter.  But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is that of a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witch doctors.’ (from rear wrap)