Alexander McCall Smith - Anyone familiar with his books?

[Retrograde]

7. I've tried books from three of his series

the first was Portuguese Irregular Verbs, which, if someone told me it had been written in the 1930s, I'd have shrugged off as one of those mildly ethnophobic British novels of the time. As it wasn't, I was annoyed with the smirking xenophobia directed towards characters straight out of 5th rate Wodehouse.

The second was one of the Botswana books, which wasn't bad - although I have little knowledge of the country. It was actually a recorded book, and I liked the way the narrator pronounced both m's in Mma

The third was the first of the Dalhousie series. I swear the supposed murder victim killed himself just so he could get out of the book.

I find him twee. Apparently a lot of people disagree.