44 Scotland Street

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Title:

44 Scotland Street

Alternate title:

Forty-four Scotland Street.

Author:

McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- author.

Mackenzie, Robert Ian, narrator.

Series:

44 Scotland Street.

Series Number:

Summary:

When Pat rents a room in Edinburgh, she acquires some interesting neighbors--including a pushy Stockbridge mother and her talented, sax-playing, five-year-old son. Her job at an art gallery hardly keeps her busy until she suspects one painting in the collection may be an undiscovered work by a Scottish master.

Edition:

Unabridged ed.

Physical Description:

10 sound discs (12 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre:

Humorous fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Audiobooks.

Subject Term:

Young women -- Fiction.

Art galleries, Commercial -- Employees -- Fiction.

Apartment houses -- Fiction.

Roommates -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction.

Author(s):

Mackenzie, Robert Ian,

Publisher:

Recorded Books,

Publication Date:

2005

ISBN:

9781419340529

Publication Information:

Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2005.

Call Number:

CDB MCCALL

Holds: Copies:

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Author Notes

Alexander McCall Smith was born on August 24, 1948 in Zimbabwe. He was a professor of medical law at the University of Edinburgh, but he left in 2005 to focus on his writing. He has written over 60 books, including specialist academic titles including Forensic Aspects of Sleep and The Criminal Law of Botswana, short story collections including Portuguese Irregular Verbs, and children's books including The Perfect Hamburger. He is best known for the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. He also writes the Corduroy Mansions, Isabel Dalhousie and 44 Scotland Street series.

He has received numerous awards, including The Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library Award and the 2004 United Kingdom's Author of the Year Award. His book, The Full Cupboard of Life, received the Saga Award for Wit in the United Kingdom. In 2007, he received a CBE for his services in literature.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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Library Journal Review

ea. vol: unabridged. Recorded Bks. 2005. f What one finds at 44 Scotland Street is a rooming house and a microcosm of Edinburgh society. Twenty-year-old Pat rents a room from handsome but vain Bruce for her second "gap" year. Precocious Bertie, pushed to excel by his overbearing mother, and crusty widow Domenica McDonald lease other spaces. There is also Matthew, the son of the owner of the art gallery where Pat finds employment as a receptionist. When a piece of art gets misappropriated, author Ian Rankin becomes involved in the sleuthing. This is Smith's best since the "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" series, and librarians will want to be sure to start their collection with the first title. Performer Robert Ian Mackenzie aptly portrays these Scots. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.