AT THE VILLA OF REDUCED CIRCUM(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　“In the halls of academe, a setting fraught with ego-driven
battles for power and prestige [Alexander McCall Smith] has
rendered yet another one-of-a-kind character: the bumbling but
brilliant Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld . . . . [a] deftly rendered
trilogy [with] endearingly eccentric characters.” —Chicago
Sun-Times

　　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.

　　Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the
international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
series, and of a new series, The Sunday Philosophy Club. He
was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and was a law professor
at the University of Botswana. He lives in Scotland, where he is a
professor of medical law at Edinburgh University.