The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency No. XIII. Mma Ramotswe, normally a sound and comfortable sleeper, finds her slumbers disturbed by a dream of a tall man beneath an acacia tree. But she is not quite ready to discover what this vision may portend. Soon even Mma Makutsi, now in the first flush of married bliss, has to admit that untoward things are occurring aroun the No. Ladies Detective Agency, not least with the construction of her new home. At Speedy Motors, the irreproachable Fanwell finds himself in trouble with the law and even more dramatically, Mma Potokwani, defender of Botswana's weak and downtrodde3n, disappears from her post at the orphan farm. It is into all this that there steps the tall stranger of Mma Romtswe's dream - none other than Mr Clovis Anderson, author of The Principles Of Private Detection - and the keeper of a surprising secret.