At the villa of reduced circumstances
By: Alexander McCall Smith ; illustrations by Iain McIntosh.
Contributors: McIntosh, Iain.
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Igelfeld, Moritz-Maria von (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; College teachers -- Fiction; Philologists -- Fiction; College stories
Genres: Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: "A Professor Dr. von Eglefeld entertainment"--Cover.