ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, the 44 Scotland Street series, and the Corduroy Mansions series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has served with many national and international organizations concerned with bioethics. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and was a law professor at the University of Botswana. He lives in Scotland. Visit his website at www.alexandermccallsmith.com.
Delightfully silly.... [von Igelfeld is a literary Mr. Magoo. --The Washington Post
Filled with comic characters, all academics of a particularly
stripe. . . . McCall Smith has the same gift that John Mortimer has
in making boring conversations hilarious--the atmosphere in the
Institute of Romance Philology's coffee room is very like the
one-upmanship and backbiting in Horace Rumpole's chambers. Academia
can be a hoot, and this series proves it.
--Booklist Professor von Igelfeld is a comic gem. . . . McCall
Smith skewers the pomposity of academic pretension with an
irresistible, deadpan insouciance.
--BlogCritics Acclaim for the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series A
comedic jewel... [At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances] attains a
level of sublime nonsense reminiscent of Woody Allen's Bananas.
--The New York Times "In the halls of academe, a setting fraught
with ego-driven battles for power and prestige [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
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