{"product_id":"at-the-villa-of-reduced-circumstances","title":"At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances","description":"Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment - Book 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffering colleagues at the Institute of Romantic Philology in Germany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48782786625791,"sku":"*R0131790*","price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/at-the-villa-of-reduced-circumstances","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}