Book Review (X3): The Professor Von Igelfeld Entertainments
Alexander McCall Smith, the author of the wildly popular No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, has a lesser known series of strict literate comedy, centered around a German University Romance Philology Department. Portuguese Irregular Verbs
Von Igelfeld is joined in educational intrigue and slapstick skullduggery by his best friend Prinzel and nemesis Unterholzer. From Venice to India, backwoods America to Cambridge, von Igelfeld doesn't miss out on an opportunity for hilarious misunderstandings.
The stories in these books never cease to make me smile, if not laugh out loud. Give them a try.
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