title: The Perils of Morning Coffee & At the Reunion Buffet (The Isabel Dalhousie Series)
author:  Alexander McCall Smith 
description: Alexander McCall Smith is the internationally bestselling author of numerous novels, including the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, and the 44 Scotland Street series. His books have been translated into forty-six languages. Formerly a professor of medical law, he now devotes himself to writing. He lives in Scotland.
zlib_text: This	is	a	work	of	fiction.	Names,	characters,	places,	and	incidents	either	are	the	product	of	the
  author’s	imagination	or	are	used	fictitiously.	Any	resemblance	to	actual	persons,	living	or
  dead,	events,	or	locales	is	entirely	coincidental.
  Copyright	©	2011	by	Alexander	McCall	Smith
  All	rights	reserved.	Published	in	the	United	States	by	Pantheon	Books,	a	division	of	Random
  House,	Inc.,	New	York.	Originally	published	in	Great	Britain	by	Little,	Brown,	an	imprint	of
  Little,	Brown	Book	Group,	a	Hachette	U.K.	Company,	London.
  Library	of	Congress	Cataloging-in-Publication	Data
  McCall	Smith,	Alexander,	[date]
  The	perils	of	morning	coffee	:	an	Isabel	Dalhousie	ebook	original	story	/	Alexander	McCall
  Smith.	—	1st	U.S.	ed.
  p.	cm.
  eISBN:	978-0-307-90751-6
  1.	Dalhousie,	Isabel	(Fictitious	character)—Fiction.	2.	Women	philosophers—Fiction.	3.
  Edinburgh	(Scotland)—Fiction.	I.	Title.
  PR6063.C326P47	2011
  823’.914—dc23
  2011035708
  www.pantheonbooks.com
  Cover	design	by	Linda	Huang
  v3.1
  
  Contents
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