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Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment – Book 2The 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.

Dr. Alfred Jones appears content with his life: his recent paper on caddis fly larvae is set to make waves, his job as a fisheries scientist is satisfactory, and he and his wife, Mary, have just celebrated twenty years of marriage, marked by a new electric toothbrush gift. Yet, he feels something is missing. When approached about a project to create a salmon river in Yemen, he initially dismisses the idea as absurd. However, the proposal gains traction among British politicians looking for a distraction from negative news in the Middle East. Soon, the Prime Minister is promoting the project, and Fred is compelled to abandon his research to figure out how to transport ten thousand salmon to a desert. The initiative is driven by a Yemeni sheikh, a passionate and wealthy man whose belief in the impossible begins to resonate with Fred, challenging his rational objections and testing his marriage. As Fred interacts with Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, the sheikh's elegant land agent, the cracks in his stable life widen. Together, they embark on an extraordinary journey of faith and fishing, leading Fred to discover unexpected belief, love, and heroism that surprises both him and those around him.

Miss Isabel erwartet einen schönen Opernbesuch, doch ein junger Mann stürzt vor ihren Augen in den Tod. Neugierig beschließt sie, den Fall zu klären. Ihre Ermittlungen führen sie in die feine Gesellschaft Edinburghs, wo sie ein bedrohliches Komplott entdeckt.