Obvious to Mma Ramotswe is that she does not keep the house clean. Unknown to him, she has been sleeping in his bed with her men friends. Newly engaged Mma Ramotswe is not impressed with Mr JLB Matekoni's maid, Florence Pena. The satire in the conversation is remarked as worthy of Mark Twain. Another quotes a dialogue in this novel as an excellent example how the author "plays the two cultures against each other" evenhandedly, the two cultures being the West and the "primitive" country of Botswana.
One reviewer finds the writing both dignified and humorous, and describes the protagonist as imperturbable. A crime against Mma Ramotswe does not come off, leading the culprit, maid to her fiancé, to prison instead. The engagement of Mma Ramotswe and Mr JLB Matekoni endures, as he gets her a diamond engagement ring, and takes on two children from the orphan farm. The agency takes on two cases, one involving a college-aged boy who disappeared ten years earlier, and the other a local man who does not understand why his wife is so long away from home each day. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Botswana, which features the Motswana protagonist Precious Ramotswe.
Tears of the Giraffe is the second in The No.
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