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‘No. 1 Ladies’ Detective’ writer visits Brattle Theatre

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 16, 2012

Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith , whose “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency’’ series turned into an HBO show starring Jill Scott , was at the Brattle Theatre on Friday on behalf of the Harvard Book Store and the Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative to talk about his life, his work, and the latest book in the ‘No. 1’ series, “The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection.’’ We hear that McCall Smith . . .

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