Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith

Paperback Fiction

In the sequel to Portuguese Irregular Verbs, our hero Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld is the unlikely choice to address veterinarians in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas, is dogged by dachshunds, becomes embroiled with that notorious Coptic schismatic, the Duke of Johannesburg (and his victim the Patriarch of Alexandria), and finally ends up being mobbed as the star attraction on a Mediterranean cruise ship.