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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

A gentle Botswana of red earth and acacia thorn, where a kind, shrewd woman opens the country's only female-run detective agency in a small building below Kgale Hill on the edge of the capital. The map runs from that hill and the office through the city centre and the mall, out along the Tlokweng Road, and north to the cattle country and her home village of Mochudi.

Precious Ramotswe

Kgale Hill

Chapter 1

The rocky rise on the edge of the capital gives the whole book its horizon. The detective's little office sits in its shadow, and the hill stands over the opening pages as she takes stock of her life and decides to become a private investigator.

Chapter 1

explicit Kgale Hill is a real landmark on the southwestern edge of Gaborone, named in the novel; this marks the hill itself.

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Precious Ramotswe

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Chapter 1

The heroine sets up Botswana's first agency run by a woman in a modest building near the foot of the hill, with a view of the acacia trees and the road into town. From here she interviews clients over bush tea and takes on the small, human cases that make up the book.

Chapter 1

inferred The office is fictional. The novel places it in a small building below Kgale Hill on the edge of Gaborone, so this marks a representative point at the northeastern foot of the hill toward the city, not a real address.

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