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The Sunday Philosophy Club: (Isobel Dalhousie Novels)

by Alexander McCall Smith

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The Sunday Philosophy Club: (Isobel Dalhousie Novels)

Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and 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 and murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concert in the Usher Hall didn't fall. He was pushed. With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander McCall Smith introduces a new and pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder, mayhem - and 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.

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The Sunday Philosophy Club is McCall Smith's debut in bringing his detective skills closer to home.From the author of the endearing No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency stories, bourgeois Edinburgh provides the setting for the mystery of how, and why a young man falls to his death at the Usher Hall in front of the books' heroine ,Isabel Dalhousie.Her intrigue gets the better of her and all of us who read this compelling tale.

Review by susan ravalde on 14:04, 04 Apr 2008

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