The Sunday Philosophy Club

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.

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