01574cam a2200265 4500 1855608650 TxAuBib 20130131120000.0 041014s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004044546 9780375422980 $19.95 0375422986 $19.95 TxAuBib McCall Smith, Alexander. The Sunday philosophy club : The Sunday Philosophy Club / Alexander McCall Smith. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, 2004. 247 p. Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. 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 Philosophers' Club at her house in Edinburgh. In this first book in McCall Smith's new series Isabel investigates how a yong man caould have fallen to his death from the top balcony of the Usher Hall. She is aided in this by her beautiful niece, Cat, Hugo, Cat's ex- boyfriend (whose own good looks Isabel is tantalised by) and her strict housekeeper, Grace. Isabel is drawn into the heart of Edinburgh's well-heeled if somewhat shady business community as she sets out to discover the truth. 20130131. Stockbrokers Crimes against Fiction. Women editors Fiction. Housekeepers Fiction. Edinburgh (Scotland) Fiction.