The Sunday Philosophy Club (Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries ) (Isabel Dalhousie, #1)

by Alexander McCall Smith

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Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. She edits the Review of Applied Ethics - addressing such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - & 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 & murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concertl didn't fall. He was pushed. The Sunday Philosophy Club marks new territory - but familiar moral ground - from the author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander Mccall Smith introduces a new & pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder, mayhem - & 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. Visit the author's website can be found at www.mccallsmith.com
  • ISBN10 0349116415
  • ISBN13 9780349116419
  • Publish Date 19 September 2004 (first published 1 January 2004)
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Abacus
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Language English