Phuti found himself drawing up alongside a crowded minibus. He did not look at it, for there was nothing our of the ordinary to it, except for the fact that it carried, looking out of the window, Grace Makutsi, assistant detective, on her way home from the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Mma Makutsi recognized Phuti Radiphuiti's car, and gave a start. She sat bolt uptight, face close to the window, taking in first the car, then Phuti at the wheel, and then, in an awful heart-stopping moment, a figure of Violet Sephotho - false claimant of eighty per cent, writer of anonymous letters, Jezebel.