At the villa of reduced circumstances

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Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due--a quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, Professor Dr. von Igelfeld gets caught up in a nasty case of academic intrigue while on sabbatical at Cambridge. When he returns to Regensburg he is confronted with the thrilling news that someone from a foreign embassy has actually checked his masterwork, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, out of the Institute's Library. As a result, he gets caught up in intrigue of a different sort on a visit to Bogota, Colombia.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• At the villa of reduced circumstancesAnchor Books2005-01-01
• At the villa of reduced circumstancesPolygon2003-01-01
• At the villa of reduced circumstances.Howes2004-01-01
• At the villa of reduced circumstancesVintage Canada2004-01-01
• At the Villa of Reduced CircumstancesAudio CassetteTime Warner Books Uk2004-07-24
• At the Villa of Reduced Circumstance (Von Igelfeld 3)Audio CDTime Warner AudioBooks2004-08-05