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The finer points of sausage dogs / Alexander McCall Smith ; illustrations by Iain McIntosh.
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- ISBN: 9780307370389 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307370380 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Publisher: Toronto [Ontario] : Vintage Canada, 2004.
- Copyright: ©2003
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| General Note: | Originally published: Edinburgh : Polygon, 2003. |
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| Subject: | Igelfeld, Moritz-Maria von (Fictitious character) > Fiction. College teachers > Fiction. Philologists > Fiction. |
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A deliciously entertaining new series by the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladiesâ Detective Agency
The many fans of Precious Ramotswe will find further cause for celebration in the protagonist of Alexander McCall Smithâs irresistibly funny trilogy, the eminent (if shamefully under-read) philologist Professor Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute at Regensburg. Unnaturally tall, hypersensitive to slights, and oblivious to his own frequent gaucheries, von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he knows is due him.
Portuguese Irregular Verbs follows the Professor from a busmanâs holiday researching old Irish obscenities to a flirtation with a desirable lady dentist. In The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, von Igelfeld practices veterinary medicine without a license, transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate and is mobbed by marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise ship. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, the final novel in the trilogy, we find our hero suffering the slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and the slings of outrageous fortune in an eventful Columbian adventure.
