McCall Smith, Alexander

Akimbo and his cousin, Kosi, join a scientist who has come to Africa to study baboons in the wild, but the expedition turns frightening when a black leopard begins prowling their camp, and the boys get lost in the bush.

Harriet helps her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate cheating at the racetrack by disguising herself as a jockey.

When her absent-minded inventor father suddenly remembers that he has five sisters, nine-year-old Harriet Bean, who has never heard of them before, determines to find her unknown aunts so that the unfinished family portrait can be completed.

When she joins Aunt Japonica and Aunt Thessalonika on a trip to America, nine-year-old Harriet meets yet another relative--Aunt Formica, a cowgirl who is having trouble with some clever and mysterious cattle rustlers.

Isabel Dalhousie is confronted with a strange situation when she meets a man who has had a heart transplant and is having memories of events that never happened to him!.

After witnessing a man kill himself off the Edinburgh concert hall, Isabel Dalhousie becomes determined to figure out why. Isabel ignores warnings from her housekeeper and her niece not to get involved and begins investigating his death. At the same time, she works to end the increasingly serious relationship between her niece and a man she does not approve of.

While waiting for the date of her own wedding, Madame Ramotswe and her friends in the Ladies Detective Agency have been hired to investigate whether a wealthy woman's suitors want her or her money.

Von Igelfeld is quite pleased with his role as a visiting scholar at Cambridge, even if his English colleagues can be difficult to comprehend. They frequently speak in metaphors and make peculiar assumptions, saying such odd things as "I take it your journey went well," when that is not the case at all. But von Igelfeld settles in the best he can, and is soon deeply embroiled in some shady political scheming at the university. After returning to the comfort of his perfectly rational Germany, von Igelfeld is invited to Colombia for a special fellowship. But while there, he gets caught up in some decidedly unscupulous behavior.

Invited to lecture in America, von Igelfeld envisions a visit to California or New York. Instead, he finds himself at the University of Arkansas. Still, in von Igelfeld's view, one American state is very like the other. An expert philolgist, von Igelfeld prepares to deliver a talk on verbs, until he makes a grim discovery--he has been mistaken for a German master of veterinary science who has recently passed away.