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Article: Out of Africa: Alexander McCall Smith struck gold, and won over the social set, with his hefty lady detective.(Eye)
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- April 1, 2004
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In the two-and-a-half years since his book The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency was released Stateside, Alexander McCall Smith took a break from teaching medical law at the University of Edinburgh and found he didn't have much time to devote to the United Kingdom's Human Genetics Commission, on which he served for four years. But the writer--whose mystery series has sold upwards of two million copies in the United States and has been translated into 26 languages, including Estonian and Icelandic will continue to play bassoon in the amateur ensemble he cofounded, The Really Terrible Orchestra. And he hasn't gone in for any of the extravagances afforded a worldwide ...