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Also by Alexander McCall Smith:

The Great Hippopotamus Hotel, October 2024
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From a Far and Lovely Country, November 2023
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The Sweet Remnants of Summer, July 2022
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The Man with the Silver Saab, June 2022
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Tiny Tales, March 2022
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The Man with the Silver Saab, July 2021
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The Handsome Man's Deluxed, November 2014
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The Uncommon Appeal Of Clouds, November 2012
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Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, May 2009
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The Miracle at Speedy Motors, April 2008
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The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, April 2007
Hardcover / e-Book
The Right Attitude to Rain, September 2006
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Blue Shoes and Happiness, April 2006
Hardcover / e-Book
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, March 2006
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Friends, Lovers and Chocolate, September 2005
Hardcover / e-Book
The Sunday Philosophy Club, July 2005
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, July 2005
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44 Scotland Street, June 2005
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In the Company of Cheerful Ladies:, April 2005
Hardcover / e-Book
The Full Cupboard of Life, January 2005
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Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, December 2004
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At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, December 2004
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Portuguese Irregular Verbs, December 2004
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Heavenly Date: And Other Flirtations, September 2004
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The Kalahari Typing School for Men, March 2004
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Morality for Beautiful Girls, November 2002
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AT THE VILLA OF REDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES
By: Alexander McCall Smith

Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Series
Knopf
December 2004
128 pages
ISBN: 1400095093
EAN: 9781400095094
Kindle: B000XUDGJO
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Mystery Private Eye

The many fans of Precious Ramotswe will find further cause for celebration in the protagonist of Alexander McCall Smith's 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 busman's 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.

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