Unusual Uses for Olive Oil: 4 (Professor Dr von Igelfeld Series) - Softcover

"Delightfully silly.... [von Igelfeld is a literary Mr. Magoo." --The Washington Post

"Filled with comic characters, all academics of a particularly stripe. . . . McCall Smith has the same gift that John Mortimer has in making boring conversations hilarious--the atmosphere in the Institute of Romance Philology's coffee room is very like the one-upmanship and backbiting in Horace Rumpole's chambers. Academia can be a hoot, and this series proves it."
--Booklist

"Professor von Igelfeld is a comic gem. . . . McCall Smith skewers the pomposity of academic pretension with an irresistible, deadpan insouciance."
--BlogCritics

Acclaim for the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series

"A comedic jewel... [At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances] attains a level of sublime nonsense reminiscent of Woody Allen's Bananas." --The New York Times

"In the halls of academe, a setting fraught with ego-driven battles for power and prestige [McCall Smith] has rendered yet another one-of-a-kind character: the bumbling but brilliant Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld . . . . [a] deftly rendered trilogy [with] endearingly eccentric characters." --Chicago Sun-Times

A latest entry in the popular nonsense series by the best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency mysteries finds Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld despairing over an academic rival's undeserved acclaim and stumbling into a haphazard romance with a charming widow before a mountaineering accident catapults him into unwanted fame. Original. 50,000 first printing.