Professor Dr von Igelfeld Series: The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs (Series #2) (Paperback)

from quincidence

Truly humorous as to showing the shortsightedness of the mundane and intelligent. The story and the character is easy to follow, easy to love, misunderstand and want to hand a clue-by-four. His adorable arrogance, his spunky loyalty to Germany, and his simple life all make for a easy read that le...

from fingerpost

Frequently laugh-out-loud funny, Professor of Philology Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of Germany is quite the entertaining character. Iglefeld sees himself as the epitome of scholarship, and his ego gets him into some hilarious situations. His trip to Arkansas is the funniest stretch of the book, ...

from jjvors

Once more, [Alexander McCall Smith], author of the No 1 Ladies' Detective series, tickles my funny bone in another series involving Professor Dr. Igelfeld, master philologist of mideval romance languages, noted for his seminal work, "Portuguese Irregular Verbs". In this book, [[The Finer Points o...

from lkernagh

True to the character McCall Smith presents to readers in Portuguese Irregular Verbs, Professor Dr. von Ingelfeld continues to find himself in awkward situations of his own devising, all due to his ingrained belief in his own self-importance. The connected short stories in this book had a smoothe...

from thornton37814

Prof. von Igelfeld, an expert on Portuguese language, has a rivalry with one of his colleagues which causes him to get into unusual situations. He is mistakenly booked to speak to a group in Arkansas who believes him to be an expert on sausage dogs. Later he transports bones for a Coptic Church o...