THE SUNDAY PHILOSOPHY CLUB - An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery
by Smith, Alexander McCall
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0676976654
- ISBN 13
- 9780676976656
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About This Item
Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2005. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 247 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Introducing Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics and occasional sleuth, who is often accused of getting involved in problems that are, quite frankly, none of her business. In this first installment, she is attending a concert in the Usher Hall when she witnesses a man fall from the upper balcony, and she can't help wondering whether it was the result of mischance or mischief....
Synopsis
With The Sunday Philosophy Club, Alexander McCall Smith, the author of the best-selling and beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels, begins a wonderful new series starring the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie.Isabel is fond of problems, and sometimes she becomes interested in problems that are, quite frankly, none of her business. This may be the case when Isabel sees a young man plunge to his death from the upper circle of a concert hall in Edinburgh. Despite the advice of her housekeeper, Grace, who has been raised in the values of traditional Edinburgh, and her niece, Cat, who, if you ask Isabel, is dating the wrong man, Isabel is determined to find the truth--if indeed there is one--behind the man's death. The resulting moral labyrinth might have stymied even Kant. And then there is the unsatisfactory turn of events in Cat's love life that must be attended to.Filled with thorny characters and a Scottish atmosphere as thick as a highland mist, The Sunday Philosophy Club is irresistible, and Isabel Dalhousie is the most delightful literary sleuth since Precious Ramotswe.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- THE SUNDAY PHILOSOPHY CLUB - An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery
- Author
- Smith, Alexander McCall
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Printing - First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0676976654
- ISBN 13
- 9780676976656
- Publisher
- Vintage Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- noir; hard boiled; police; whodunit; whodunnit; detection; investigation; intrigue; private investigator; p.i.; criminals; sleuth; suspense; thriller; murder; homicide; robbery; shooting; killing; guns; secrets; weird tales;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery and Detective;
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