At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
by By McCall Smith, Alexander and McIntosh, Iain (ILT)
Category: Fiction , Humorous , General

Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment - Book 3The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffering colleagues at the Institute of Romantic Philology in Germany.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.