At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
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.
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    • First Edition
    • Aug-2003
    • Gardners Books
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0954407598
    • ISBN13: 9780954407599
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    • Oct-2004
    • Vinatge (Canada)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0676976816
    • ISBN13: 9780676976816
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    • Jan-2005
    • Anchor
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1400095093
    • ISBN13: 9781400095094
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    • Jan-2001
    • Little, Brown
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1405500638
    • ISBN13: 9781405500630
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    • Dec-2004
    • Turtleback Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1417725176
    • ISBN13: 9781417725175
    • Library Binding
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    • Dec-2007
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 030742488X
    • ISBN13: 9780307424884
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    • Dec-2004
    • Recorded Books
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1419316966
    • ISBN13: 9781419316968
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    • Dec-2004
    • Recorded Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1402590563
    • ISBN13: 9781402590566
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    • May-2006
    • Listening Library
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 073932568X
    • ISBN13: 9780739325681
    • Large Print



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