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    <title>Morality for beautiful girls</title>
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    <namePart>McCall Smith, Alexander</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1948-</namePart>
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  <genre authority="gsafd">Mystery fiction.</genre>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Abacus</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2001</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2002</dateIssued>
    <edition>This edition published by Abacus in 2003</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>246 pages :  20 cm </extent>
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  <abstract>In Morality for Beautiful Girls, Precious Ramotswe, founder and owner of the only detective agency for the concerns of both ladies and others, investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important Government Man, and the moral character of the four finalists of the Miss Beauty and Integrity Contest, the winner of which will almost certainly be a contestant for the title of Miss Botswana. Yet her business is having money problems, and when other difficulties arise at her fiancés Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, she discovers the reliable Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni is more complicated then he seems.</abstract>
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      <namePart>Ramotswe, Precious</namePart>
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    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Women private investigators</topic>
    <geographic>Botswana</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Beauty contests</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization)</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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    <geographic>Botswana</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">823.92</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">1400031362 (pbk.)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780349117003</identifier>
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