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Wysłany: Wto 1:14, 19 Kwi 2011 Temat postu: climate max0Isabel Dalhousie Solves Edinburgh Myst |
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Always a reliable lyricist, Smith has created a lovely world which showcases his sincere adoration of Edinburgh while giving readers a character generous with her spirit and comfortable with her intellect. As in his each of his other 3 series [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], his carefully wrought sentences immerse the reader into Isabels world so the character-driven story remains enjoyable even while the graph becomes secondary.
In later books such for The Right Attitude to Rain and The Careful Use of Compliments, the problems that Isabel encounters become more intellectual. In The Careful Use of Compliments, Isabel namely charged with deciphering the provenance of two newly discovered paintings at a deceased artist meantime fighting for control over her darling Review of Applied Ethics, forcing her philosophical views into petition after her competitors use decidedly unethical methods.
In the first few books, Isabel solves more traditional murder mysteries such as the initial investigation into a mans malignant fall in a agreement auditorium in The Sunday Philosophy Club. As the series progresses, more heaviness is given to Isabels persona and those she lets into her life such as her thoroughly modern niece Kat, who is all seeing for Mr. Right, and stodgy mistress Grace, who often impresses above Isabel the right way to heave a appropriate baby.
Alexander McCall Smith
McCall Smith's Later Books
Although Alexander McCall Smith has convert popular mainly for his singular No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency with investigator Precious Ramotswe, his Scotland-based series leaves loosened Botswana and black community architecture for traditional Edinburgh as the family for Isabel Dalhousie.
Isabel was connate into privilege and lives in a broad smooth in Edinburgh [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Scotland. Considered quirky by her well-heeled counterparts for her dedication to editing The Review of Applied Ethics with its small readership, Isabel enjoys contemplating ethical problems and ruminating above additional puzzles which leads her into solving mysteries with far-reaching consequences.
Since Isabel has spent maximum of her life adhering to Edinburgh's social rules as the well-heeled, these trials encourage her apt allow herself more unconventional freedom, which results in the production of a new kin for herself. Through the series, Isabel shifts from creature entirely self-reliant to becoming half of a trusting [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], dedicated partnership and mother to the fascinating youth Charlie. Isabels intellect and lovely countenance earn her admiration from many Edinburgh residents and she remains socially desirable in malignity of her determinations.
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McCall Smith's Early Books
Other titles in the series contain Friends, Lovers, Chocolate; The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday; and The Lost Art of Gratitude. Throughout the series, it is remove that Isabel Dalhousie would be a lovely friend to meet for a glass of tea or to sit afterward to by a dinner gathering where the chat revolves approximately philosophy and the lukewarm feelings it can create in a welcoming apartment of similarly-interested marrows.
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