Alexander Mc Call Smith best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency has turned his hand to humour. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius. For in the unnaturally tall form of Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld we are invited to meet a memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the cultivated pomposity of Frasier Crane & of Inspecteur Clouseaus hapless gaucherie. Von Igelfeld inhabits the rarefied world of the Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg a world he shares with his equally tall & equally ridiculous colleagues Professors Florianus Prinzel & Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer. Their unlikely adventures are described in three deliciously funny instalments: Portuguese Irregular Verbs The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs & At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances.