The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

alexander mccall smith

Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment – Book 2

The 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.

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 The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs , Professor Dr. Von Igelfeld is mistaken for a veterinarian and not wanting to call attention to the faux pas, begins practicing veterinary medicine without a license. He ends up operating on a friend’s dachshund to dramatic and unfortunate effect. He also transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate, and is pursued by marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise ship.

Genres fictionhumormysteryaudiobookcomedyadult fictiongermanyacademialiteraturebritish literature

132 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2004

Series

Portuguese Irregular Verbs

Places

regensburg bavaria, germany, bavaria,

This edition

Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Published: December 28, 2004 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781400095087
ASIN: 1400095085
Language: English

Characters More characters

Professor Dr Moritz-maria Von Igelfeld

A German professor at the Institute of Romance Philology in Regensburg, Bavaria. Author of the 1200-page Irregular Portuguese Verbs. Also inordinately proud of the “von” preceding his surname. Haughty, rigid, socially awkward, hypocritical, yet occasional...
Professor Dr Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer

Colleague of von Igelfeld and Prinzel at the Institute of Romance Philology in Regensburg....

About the author

alexander mccall smith

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie Series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, and the 44 Scotland Street series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and has served on many national and international bodies concerned with bioethics. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and he was a law professor at the University of Botswana. He lives in Scotland. Visit him online at www.alexandermccallsmith.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter.