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The Sunday Philosophy Club

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16th September 2004

Price: £14.99

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Selected: Audiobook Downloadable / ISBN-13: 9781405503006

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Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. She edits the Review of Applied Ethics – addressing such questions as ‘Truth telling in sexual relationships’ – & she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city’s Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty & murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concertl didn’t fall. He was pushed. The Sunday Philosophy Club marks new territory – but familiar moral ground – from the author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander Mccall Smith introduces a new & pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder, mayhem – & the mysteries of life. As her hero WH Auden maintained, classic detective fiction stems from a desire for an uncorrupted Eden which the detective, as an agent of God, can return to us. But then Isabel, being a philosopher, has a thing or two to say about God as well.

Visit the author’s website can be found at http://www.mccallsmith.com

Reviews

Mail on Sunday
Brimming with Discreet charm
Sunday TIMES
Isabel Dalhousie's charm is undeniable
Sunday Telegraph
The suspense last till the end; and McCall Smith has the gift of evoking an entire social atmosphere in very few and simple words
Mail on Sunday
The No. 2 Lady Detective . . . anyone who loves Precious cannot fail to be charmed.
MAIL on Sunday
The No. 2 Lady Detective... anyone who loves Precious cannot fail to be charmed
The HERALD
Vintage McCall Smith, written with a characteristic twinkle in his eye and the graceful clarity of an aesthetically attuned lawyer.
Glasgow Herald
Vintage McCall Smith, written with a characteristic twinkle in his eye and the graceful clarity of an aesthetically attuned lawyer
Scotsman
Like [Barbara] Pym, McCall Smith believes that the small stuff in life matters
The HERALD
Sets up Isabel Dalhousie as Edinburgh's latest, and most engaging investigator.
Sunday Times
Isabel Dalhousie's charm is undeniable