Set some years ago, the main characters in this short mystery are lovely, intriguing characters in Botswana- including a wise detective and her assistant. The title of the book comes from a plan hatched by the assistant detective to supplement her income by opening a typing school for men.
"Typing, of course, was a special case. Not only was there male anxiety about being bettered by women in the operation of a machine (men liked to think that they were the ones who understood how to use machines), but there was the additional embarassment for them of being seen to do something which many people viewed as a women's activity. Men did not like to be secretaries and had invented a special word for men who had to do any of that sort of work. They called themselves clerks. But what was the difference between a clerk and a secretary? One wore trousers and one wore a dress."
