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 © 2020 by Alexander McCall Smith
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Little, Brown, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, a Hachette U.K. company, London, in 2020.
Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Name: McCall Smith, Alexander, [date] author.
Title: How to raise an elephant / Alexander McCall Smith.
Description: First United States edition. New York: Pantheon Books, 2020. Series: No. 1 ladies’ detective agency; 21.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020024535 (print). LCCN 2020024536 (ebook). ISBN 9781524749361 (hardcover). ISBN 9780593315729 (ebook).
Subjects: LCSH: Ramotswe, Precious (Fictitious character)—Fiction. Women private investigators—Botswana—Fiction. No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (Imaginary organization)—Fiction. Elephants—Fiction. Botswana—Fiction. LCGFT: Detective and mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PR6063.C326 H69 2020 (print) | LCC PR6063.C326 (ebook) | DDC 823/.914—dc23
LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2020024535
LC ebook record available at lccn.loc.gov/2020024536
Ebook ISBN 9780593315729
Cover illustration by Iain McIntosh
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