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Paperback The Sunday Philosophy Club (Isabel Dalhousie Series) Book

ISBN: 1400077095

ISBN13: 9781400077090

The Sunday Philosophy Club : The First Isabel Dalhousie Novel

(Book #1 in the Isabel Dalhousie Series)

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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 which can be found at www.mccallsmith.com This description may be from another edition of this product.

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8 customer ratings | 5 reviews

Rated 5 stars
Not one for fast action!!

If you are expecting an action-packed murder thriller, you will be greatly disappointed. If you enjoy gentle-paced stories with some mystery, you will like this book. If you know anything about Edinburgh, and if you know even a little about philosophy, you will love this story, even if the "heroine" can be self-reflective to the point of paralysis. McCall Smith has written an urban, Western version of Mma Ramotswe in many...

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Perfect for a philosophical book discussion

I read this book without having read any of the author's prior books. I know that some have remarked that this was boring or slow but I found it to be neither of these things. I was thoroughly entertained by it. I loved Isabel's mind--which is why I found it so difficult to understand the ending and how she came about feeling the way she did. I won't spoil the ending but I will say that it leaves one with an utterly unending...

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Not a Mystery Book; This Book is About Ethics

If your interests are limited to mystery books, nothing else, this book is not for you. I initially bought this book because of the title, thinking that we would have a female version of Her Professor Dr Dr (Hon.) Moritz-Maria von Igenfeld, the Pninish uberscholar philologist who wrote the seminal Portugese Irregular Verbs ("after which there was nothing left to discuss about the subject, Nothing."). I was curious to see...

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Catherwood is right - McCall Smith is a genius

Catherwood is right! McCall Smith IS a genius. The fact that this amazingly versatile author is able to write in so many different literary genres is living proof of a brilliant original literary mind at work. Like Catherwood I enjoyed both the Ramotswe novels, the Von Igenfeld entertainments and now this splendid mystery novel all alike. Go with Catherwood's critique and buy all McCall Smith's oeuvre, from Botswana to Edinburgh!...

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Conflicting Ethical Concepts

In Mr. Smith's book he makes a natural transition from the books of the "No. 1 Ladies Detective" series toward a more human concept. Instead of the near `saintly' ethical and moral actions and thoughts of his characters in Botswana, McCall Smith deals here with a more advanced culture and the question of conflicting ethical concepts. In this book, "The Sunday Philosophy Club" again Smith uses a mystery as the vehicle for...

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