TY - BOOK AU - McCall Smith,Alexander TI - The charming quirks of others SN - 0739377817 (lg. print) : PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Random House Large Print KW - Dalhousie, Isabel (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Women philosophers KW - Edinburgh (Scotland) KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - Large type books N2 - A couple who are old friends of Isabel's ask for her help in a rather tricky situation: A successor is being sought for the headmaster position at their alma mater. The board has four final candidates but has received an anonymous letter alleging that one of them has a very serious skeleton in the closet. Could Isabel discreetly look into it? And so she does. What she discovers about all the candidates is surprising, but what she discovers in herself turns out to be equally revealing, and she finds that she has also unwittingly upset Jamie, the father of her young son ER -