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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... read more

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  • “God is very forgiving these days. He's moved on. He forgives everything, in fact.”
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Profesor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of that great triumph of Germanic scholarship, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, had never set foot on American shores.

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EINS The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
ZWEI A Leg to Stand On
DREI On the Couch
VIER The Bones of Father Christmas
FUNF The Perfect Imperfect

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This is book 2 of 3 in The 2½ Pillars of Wisdom. (standard series)

Preceded by Portuguese Irregular Verbs, and followed by At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances.

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Polygon
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 095440758X
Page Count: 144

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