A young working-class woman, whose boyfriend is wanted by the police, is hounded by the press.
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A young working-class woman, whose boyfriend is wanted by the police, is hounded by the press.
The Sunday philosophy club
by McCall Smith, Alexander, Porter, Davina
fromIsabel Dalhousie
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Type: Book
Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher by training, and an amateur sleuth by choice. When a young man falls from a balcony to his death, Isabel does not believe it was an accident. Plunging deep into the shady business community of Edinburgh, she is determined to root out the truth.
Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher by training, and an amateur sleuth by choice. When a young man falls from a balcony to his death, Isabel does not believe it was an accident. Plunging deep into the shady business community of Edinburgh, she is determined to root out the truth.
The editor of "The Review of Applied Ethics" and a curious lover of puzzles, Isabel Dalhousie decides to investigate when she witnesses the fatal fall of a young man and discovers that he had been probing misdeeds at his brokerage firm.
With no means to support herself, Ellie Kilmer agrees to work as a housekeeper for the young widower who lives on Dillon Island, hopeful she can obtain a proper reference. But Jackson Smith quickly realizes that Ellie's presence may solve his own problems.
"Cleaner Janice knows that it is in people's stories that you really get to know them. When Janice starts cleaning for Mrs B -- a shrewd and tricksy woman in her nineties -- she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice is clear: she is the keeper of stories,…
