No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency Author to Speak at Indiana University

Alexander McCall Smith, author of the best-selling serial novels The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency will visit Indiana University in Bloomington on April 20.

McCall Smith will give a public talk at 5:00 p.m. in the Whittenberger Auditorium as a guest of the College Arts and Humanities Institute.

McCall Smith's United States tour coincides with a new HBO television adaptation of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, which debuted on March 29th, and with the North American publication in April of the 10th novel of the series, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built. The new novel finds the tenacious Botswana lady detective Mma Ramotswe, proprietor of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, involved in the intricate and sometimes currupt world of Botswana football.

McCall Smith was born in what is now Zimbabwe and was educated there and in Scotland. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, where he taught medical law for many years. . . Okay, I'm going to cut the bio here. I get peeved when more space is given to the author than his work.