Tea time for the traditionally built

Summary: The 10th! instalment in this infinitely enjoyable series finds the ever-charming, ever-resourceful Mma Ramostwe helping people, and vans, with problems in their lives.<br><br>Mma Ramotswe&#8217;s tiny white van has developed a disturbing noise. But having made numerous repairs to the van over the years, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni &#8211; her estimable husband and mechanic nonpareil &#8211; sells it without telling her and presents her with a new, characterless vehicle. So Mma Ramotswe sets out to recover the van. . . .<br><br>In the meantime, the thoroughly unpleasant, yet glamorous, Violet Sephotho (who earned 50 percent, at most!, in the final examinations of the Botswana Secretarial College) gets herself a job at the Double Comfort Furniture Store. Why? The reason is obvious: to make a play for Mma Makutsi&#8217;s fianc, Mr Phuti Radiphuti.<br><br>And a proprietor of a local football team has enlisted the No. 1 Ladies&#8217; Detective Agency to help explain their dreadful losing streak: surely someone is fixing the games &#8211; it can&#8217;t just be a case of unskilled players . . . This is a job for Charlie, ever-apprentice at the Speedy Motors, to sniff out the competence of the players, as an assistant detective. . . .