![]() ![]() This series debut is where we meet Isabel, and are first treated to her many such philosophical musings. When a young man falls from the uppermost balcony of Edinburgh's Usher Hall, past Isabel Dalhousie's middle-tier seat and down to the floor far below, she thinks of Icarus dropping from the sky. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, this slightly mysterious, quietly philosophical series is "the literary equivalent of herbal tea and a cozy fire … a world of kindness, gentility, and creature comforts."- NYTimes At once the nosiest and the most sympathetic philosopher you are likely to meet, 40-ish Isabel Dalhousie-half Scottish, half American-lives in a big old house in Edinburgh, where she has taken the editor's post at the Review of Applied Ethics and founded the Sunday Philosophy Club. ![]()
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