{"product_id":"tea-time-for-the-traditionally-builtbooks","title":"Tea Time for the Traditionally Built","description":"The 10th! instalment in this infinitely enjoyable series finds the ever-charming, ever-resourceful Mma Ramostwe helping people, and vans, with problems in their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMma Ramotswe’s tiny white van has developed a disturbing noise. But having made numerous repairs to the van over the years, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni – her estimable husband and mechanic nonpareil – sells it without telling her and presents her with a new, characterless vehicle. So Mma Ramotswe sets out to recover the van. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the meantime, the thoroughly unpleasant, yet glamorous, Violet Sephotho (who earned 50 percent, at most!, in the final examinations of the Botswana Secretarial College) gets herself a job at the Double Comfort Furniture Store. Why? The reason is obvious: to make a play for Mma Makutsi’s fiancé, Mr Phuti Radiphuti.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd a proprietor of a local football team has enlisted the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency to help explain their dreadful losing streak: surely someone is fixing the games – it can’t just be a case of unskilled players . . . This is a job for Charlie, ever-apprentice at the Speedy Motors, to sniff out the competence of the players, as an assistant detective. . . .","brand":"McCall Smith, Alexander","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":45002395320544,"sku":"","price":17.97,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0f23f9e5-6986-49d7-b6cd-a0a2eef44064.jpg?v=1710854363","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/tea-time-for-the-traditionally-builtbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}