The Sunday Philosophy Club is the first book in the series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. The Sunday Philosophy Club is the first of the Sunday Philosophy Club series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featuring. The Sunday Philosophy Club Paperback 29 January 2013 by Alexander McCall Smith (Author) 1,785 ratings Book 1 of 14: Isabel Dalhousie See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 27.88 Other new and used from 11.34 Paperback 17.70 Other new from 16. The series are narrated through the eyes of Isabel. Isabel Dalhousie, the insatiably curious Edinburgh sleuth and philosopher, takes on a case unlike any shes had before: a six-year-old boy has been experiencing. But then Isabel, being a philosopher, has a thing or two to say about God as well. She is the main character in, The Sunday Philosophy Club series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith. As her hero WH Auden maintained, classic detective fiction stems from a desire for an uncorrupted Eden which the detective, as an agent of God, can return to us. With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander McCall Smith introduces a new and pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder, mayhem – and the mysteries of life. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concert in the Usher Hall didn’t fall. Cheerful Ladies Blue Shoes and Happiness The Good Husband of Zebra Drive The Sunday Philosophy Club Series The Sunday Philosophy Club Friends, Lovers.

Behind the city’s Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty and murderous intent. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics – which addresses such questions as ‘Truth telling in sexual relationships’ – and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF THE MUCH-LOVED ISABEL DALHOUSIE SERIESĪmateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries.

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