The Miracle at Speedy Motors (2008) (edit title/settings)

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• Mma Precious Ramotswe: The lady detective. She is the main character.
• Mma Ramotswe: The owner of the #1 Ladies Detective Agency.
• Mma Grace Makutsi: The associate detective of #1.
• Charlie: The young man is a perpetual apprentice at the Speedy Motors.
• Mr. Polopetsi: A part-time employee of Speedy motors and part-time for the #1 detectives. He was given a job after Mma Ramotswe hit him on his bicycle with her little white van.
• Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni: He is married to Mma Ramotswe and is the owner of Speedy Motors
• Mma Sebina: A client of #1 who wants to find any of her family.
• Mr. Sekape: A bank manager that was raised at the Orphan Farm.
• Phuti Radiphuti: The son of the owner of the Double Comfort Furniture Company and the fiancee of Mma Grace Makutsi.
• Mma Potokwane: The matron of the Orphan Farm.
• Motholeli: The foster daughter of Mma Ramotswe and Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni. She is confined to a wheelchair.
• Mma Mapoi: An informant that knew Mma Sebina's mother.
• Dr. Mwata: A retired doctor living in Gaborone.
• Dr. Moffat: The local doctor in Gaborone.
• Violet Sephotho: One of the glamorous gals from the Botswana Secretarial School. She was a poor student.

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• “Mma Ramotswe was right: evil repaid with retribution, with punishment, had achieved half its goal; evil repaid with kindness was shown to be what it really was, a small,petty thing, not something frightening at all, but something pitiable, a paltry affair.”

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• Sometimes it seemed as if the world itself was broken, that there was something wrong with all of us, something broken in such a way that it might not be put together again; but the holding of hands, human hand in human hand, could help, could make the world seem less broken.

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• “I think that they are with us,” she said. “They are all around us. What they have done. Their voices. The memories they have left us. All of that is there.”

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• What does it matter, she thought, if businesses are left unattended, if people are not always as we want them to be; we need the time just to be human, to enjoy something like this: a boy chasing ants, a dry land drinking at last, birds in the sky, a rainbow.

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• there were not many subjects one could not raise with an old friend. But there were some. One thing one should never do is to criticise, even in the gentlest of manners, the spouse of a friend; nor their children; nor their taste in music, their dogs, their possessions in general, their choice of clothes in particular, their children’s choice of clothes (or spouses), or their cooking. Apart from that, one could talk about anything.

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• It was far more likely that there would be love, falling like rain from above, changing the hearts of the wicked; transforming them.

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• “And that is why we must answer her hatred with love. I can’t say whether it will change her in her heart—it probably won’t. But if it makes her feel even just a little bit better about herself, she will be less envious.”

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• What was money? Nothing. A human conceit, so much smaller a thing than love, and friendship, and the pursuit, no matter how pointless, of hope. What did it matter that this money was being thrown away for no good reason? It mattered not at all, she decided.

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• Everybody knows, she thought, that we have a skeleton underneath our skin; there’s no reason to show it.

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• vade mecum, Clovis Andersen’s The Principles of Private Detection.

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• Speedy Motors: Not only is it the home to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni's garage, it is also the home of the No.1 Ladies' Dectective Agency. It is located on Tlokweng Road.
• Botswana Secretarial College
• Bra
• Rra
• Johannesburg
• Bobonong
• Motswana

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Preceded by The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, and followed by Tea Time for the Traditionally Built.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Alexander McCall Smith (Author)

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• Library of Congress: PR6063.C326 M53 2008
• Dewey: 823.914

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• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery › Women Sleuths