The Careful Use of Compliments

McCall Smith, Alexander

ISBN 10: 037542301X / ISBN 13: 9780375423017

Published by Pantheon, 2007

About this Item

NY: Pantheon Books (2007), Hard Cover w/ DJ. First Edition, first printing (stated with complete number line). SIGNED on publishers bookplate on the half-title page. 8vo, 247pp. Blue and black boards with gold titles, are clean and straight. Pages are clean, no other names or markings, not Ex-Library, and lightly darkened from age. Unclipped DJ ( $21.95), is near-fine and protected in mylar jacket. Book and DJ condition: Near Fine. Books are carefully packaged and shipped in a box. This is the fourth book in The Sunday Philosophy Club Series set in Edinburgh.

Seller Inventory # 6131

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Careful Use of Compliments
• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 037542301X
• ISBN 13: 9780375423017
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition
  • SIGNED
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

ISABEL DALHOUSIE - Book 4

Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series of novels featuring the insatiably curious philosopher and woman detective.  Whether investigating a case or a problem of philosophy, the indefatigable Isabel Dalhousie, one of fiction’s most richly developed amateur detectives, is always ready to pursue the answers to all of life’s questions, large and small.

In addition to being the nosiest and most sypathetic philosopher you are likely to meet, Isabel is now a mother. Charlies, her newborn son, presents her with a myriad wonders of a new life, and doting father Jamie presents her with an intriguing proposal: marriage. In the midst of all this, she receives a disturbing letter announcing that she has been ousted as editor of the Review of Applied Ethics by the ambitious Professor Dove.

None of these things, however, in any way diminshes Isabel's curiosity. And when she attends an art auction, she finds an irresistable puzzle: two paintings attributed to a now-deceased artist appear on the market at the same time, and both of them exhibit some unusual characteristics. Are these paintings forgeries? This proves to be sufficient fodder for Isabel's inquisitiveness. So she begins an investigation... and soon finds herself diverging from her philosophical musings about fatherhood onto a path that leads her into the mysteries of the art world and the soul of an artist.

About the Authors

Alexander McCall Smith is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh.

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the huge international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has served on many national and international bodies concerned with bioethics.