Title: At the Villa of Reduced Circumstance (Von Igelfeld 3)
First published: August 5, 2004
Description: 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.
Subjects: Young adult fiction, Philologists, College teachers, Fiction, Large type books, Fiction, humorous, general, College teachers, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), College stories, Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld (Fictitious character)
LC classification: PR6063.C326 A96 2005