At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances

Winner of the British Book Awards, Author of the Year, 2004.Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award, 2004. 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 that while he has been away his murine colleagues have been at play.