"Mma Ramotswe, owner of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency ( as featured in a two-page article in the Botswana Daily News, under the headline "A Lady Who Definitely Knows How to Find Things Out", had strong views on the things that she owned."
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reading this for the second time this year (and making up for all the years this has been on my TBR).
This isn't the opening lines of MC but it is the first line of one of my favourite stories from here. This made me laugh, and is a really nice contrast to the story about Ylla.
To some it‘s a stage.
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This is the story of Bob Burgess, a tall, heavyset man who lives in the town of Crosby, Maine, and he is sixty-five years old at the time that we are speaking of him.
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"I am standing outside the door."
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My dear father and mother,
We arrived here last night, highly pleased with our journey, and the occasion of it.
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Almost a pick. A Halloween read. Three acquaintances (a criminal, a crime writer and an ex-cop) go to an exclusive place to eat that is impossible to get to, or escape from.
A dark macabre tale (that is truly gruesome) but lightened with comedy. The characters are stock but the twists and the plot picking pace makes this matter less.
When the office door opened suddenly, I knew the game was up.
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