All of the first three books in this series are reviewed in one article by Alida Becker. Regarding the main character with her "appealing personality," she says, "As she pursues her investigations . . . Mma Ramotswe acts as much like Miss Manners as Miss Marple." Once the reader has read the first two novels and is "in the third, Morality for Beautiful Girls, you've realized that all this activity is much less about whodunit than why." The novels are also "about the variety and resilience of a nation to which Smith seems utterly devoted." The writing has both "energy and eccentricity", though "occasional longeurs of Smith's prose, whose formal cadences can sometimes slide into a languid drone" also mark the prose. As an example of the charm of Mma Ramotswe, this extract from Morality of Beautiful Girls is described: "Listening to a BBC broadcast about philosophers, for example, she is startled, then amused, by a description that sounds very much like her selfish, abusive ex-husband: She had been married to an existentialist herself, without even knowing it." In an article reviewing the first three novels of this series, Dick Lochte remarks on the events of Morality for Beautiful Girls as "thoroughly engaging and entertaining". The detective, Mma Ramotswe is "a remarkably original character". McCall Smith's writing style is "seemingly simple and direct, but this is a deception. Precious' progress is charted in passages that have the power to amuse or shock or touch the heart, sometimes all at once." Sandy Bauers reviews the audio versions of the first four novels (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe, Morality for Beautiful Girls and The Kalahari Typing School for Men), which were released in 2003 in the US. The stories are "gentle mysteries, and Precious solves them all cleverly and easily, mostly through a finely honed sense of human frailty and simple wisdom." The key aspect of these mysteries is not in the crimes themselves, rather "in the way she [Mma Ramotswe] does it, and the way the characters interact." The reader for the audio versions is Lisette Lecat, who is familiar with Botswana's speech patterns in English. The reviewer feels that "books that require accents from other countries" are where the genre of audio books shines. Part of series This novel is the third in a series based on a set of characters residing in Botswana. The