Mrs Curtin, a wealthy African-American widow, arrives in Botswana to find her son, Michael, who moved to Botswana to live in a commune on the edge of the Kalahari Desert.
The comically uptight Mma Makutsi is soon neatly chalking up three more cases for her kindly boss to solve: 'The Frightened shopkeeper, The 2 O'clock Doctor and The Possible Poisoner'.
'Detective work is not all bang, bang, bang, like it is in the movies,' says secretary, Mma Makutsi.
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