At the villa of reduced circumstances - Alexander McCall Smith

Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment - Book 3

The 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.