Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld inhabits the rarefied world of the Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg, a world he shares with his equally tall and equally ridiculous colleagues, Professors Prinzel and Unterholzer.
Their unlikely adventures are described three volumes by Alexander McCall Smith with illustrations by Iain McIntosh: Portuguese Irregular Verbs, The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs and At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances.
In 2004 the trilogy was published in paperback under the title: The Two-and-a-half Pillars of Wisdom
'death in Venice'
'the Holy Man'
from 'the principles of Tennis'
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
The trilogy in paperback.