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At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

By: Alexander McCall Smith
Narrated by: Hugh Laurie
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Winner of the British Book Awards, Author of the Year, 2004.
Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award, 2004.

The third novel in the Portuguese Irregular Verbs trilogy sees von Igelfeld suffering the slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at Cambridge and the arrows of outrageous fortune in an eventful Columbian adventure.

Between trips, von Igelfeld returns to his beloved Regensburg only that to discover that while he has been away his murine colleagues have been at play.
©2003 Alexander McCall Smith (P)2004 Time Warner AudioBooks
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Incomplete book

It appears that the book did not download in its entirety and a chapter from another McCall Smith book was in the presentation. Extremely disappointed.

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