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The irresistible wit and charm of Alexander McCall Smith's New York Times best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series has won over countless fans. The same subtle humor and enchanting characterizations are full on display in At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, the third entertaining novella starring Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld.

A Pride and Prejudice variation. After her father’s death Elizabeth Bennet is forced to accept the position of a companion to an older lady in the north of the country. A few years later she meets Darcy by chance encounter and they renew their acquaintance. Will they have a possibility to rebuild mutual trust? Will she be able to look over her own apprehension and troubled past to see a worthy man who loves, and desires her? The story contains mature content.

When two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, and their mother are left to the financial mercies of John Dashwood and his wife, they find themselves in drastically reduced circumstances.

The third novel in the Portuguese Irregular Verbs trilogy sees von Igelfeld suffering the slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and the arrows of outrageous fortune in an eventful Columbian adventure. Between trips, von Igelfeld returns to his beloved Regensburg only that to discover while he has been away his murine colleagues have been at play.