Title: The Double Comfort Safari Club (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #11)
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Year: 2010
Publisher: Pantheon
Pages: 211
Although there's more literary subtlety to this one, I was more disappointed in it. I was ultimately puzzled by the title. "Double Comfort" suggested that the Safari Club might have something to do with Phuti Radiphuti's furniture store of the same name, but there is no connection. Nor are either of the camps called "Double Comfort," nor is there really either a safari or a club. In fact, little of the novel has anything to do with a safari or a safari club. At the plot level, it's more of a mishmash of little stories than anything else. Oh, and Phuti has a terrible accident, but it's treated with as little emotion or focus as... well, as these orphans who do so little and mean so little through so many installments.
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