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The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs | 
 enlarge | Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Book
List Price: $10.95
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 102425
Media: Paperback
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 1400095085
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781400095087
ASIN: 1400095085
Publication Date: December 28, 2004
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Product Description
Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels certain he is due–a quest which has the tendency to go hilariously astray.
In The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, Professor Dr. Von Igelfeld is mistaken for a veterinarian and not wanting to call attention to the faux pas, begins practicing veterinary medicine without a license. He ends up operating on a friend’s dachshund to dramatic and unfortunate effect. He also transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate, and is pursued by marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise ship.
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 Great fun! January 6, 2009
J. P. Peake (Fort Worth, TX USA)
This is a good author. I've read most of his series. With this one he just has fun and uses his full creativity. He follows no rules and doesn't waste time with too much detail. But you can still see it. Each book in this series is better than the one before. Lot's of mini adventures.
 Disappointed August 31, 2008
Joyce M. Brown (Thornton, CO)
Anticipated a better story from Mr. Smith after reading the #l Ladies Detective Agency Series
 Sausage Dogs Just for Fun August 8, 2008
T Rice (Sunnyside, WA United States)
I bought this book for my mother-in-law because she is a dog lover. A few months later when visiting her, I found the book in with her recycle newspapers and asked her what she thought of the book. "Well, I don't really know what it was about, it didn't make any sense." So I took the book home and read it.
Alexander McCall Smith is pretty light, fun reading and as such is a nice interlude.
Dr. von Igelfeld, a philologist, is mistaken for a veterinarian with an emphasis on sausage dogs and is asked to America from England to give a talk. It is not until moments before the speech that he realizes the mistake that has been made and valiantly gives a speech anyway.
This is just the beginning. He has many more crazy things happen in his life, like assisting at amputating an injured leg of a sausage dog but amputates the wrong one, three times! Until the poor thing has one leg left.
Really a just for fun read which is a great thing now and then.
Sausage dogs Just for Fun August 8, 2008
T Rice (Sunnyside, WA United States)
I bought this book for my mother-in-law because she is a dog lover. A few months later when visiting her, I found the book in with her recycle newspapers and asked her what she thought of the book. "Well, I don't really know what it was about, it didn't make any sense." So I took the book home and read it.
Alexander McCall Smith is pretty light, fun reading and as such is a nice interlude.
Dr. von Igelfeld, a philologist, is mistaken for a veterinarian with an emphasis on sausage dogs and is asked to America from England to give a talk. It is not until moments before the speech that he realizes the mistake that has been made and valiantly gives a speech anyway.
This is just the beginning. He has many more crazy things happen in his life, like assisting at amputating an injured leg of a sausage dog but amputates the wrong one, three times! Until the poor thing has one leg left.
Really a just for fun read which is a great thing now and then.
MUCH MUCH FUN! June 12, 2008
Mark Diorio (Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA United States)
We had so much fun listening to this book on our trip from Carmel to San Francisco ...and back! Thi is a fun and entertaining story. Suggest it for all those light hearted and fun filled trips and travelers! A great traveling companion!
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