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The Dog Who Came in from the Cold: A Corduroy Mansions Novel - eBook
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▼▲| Title: The Dog Who Came in from the Cold: A Corduroy Mansions Novel - eBook By: Alexander McCall Smith Format: DRM Protected ePub Vendor: Anchor | Publication Date: 2011 ISBN: 9780307379849 ISBN-13: 9780307379849 Stock No: WW28189EB |
Publisher's Description
▼▲CORDUROY MANSIONS - Book 2
In the Corduroy Mansions series of novels, set in Londons hip Pimlico neighborhood, we meet a cast of charming eccentrics, including perhaps the worlds most clever terrier, who make their home in a handsome, though slightly dilapidated, apartment block.
The heartwarming and hilarious new installment in the Corduroy Mansions series presents the further adventures of Alexander McCall Smiths newest beloved character: the Pimlico terrier Freddie de la Hay.
In the elegantly crumbling mansion block in Pimlico called Corduroy Mansions, the comings and goings of the wonderfully motley crew of residents continue apace. A pair of New Age operators has determined that Terence Moongroves estate is the cosmologically correct place for their center for cosmological studies. Literary agent Barbara Ragg has decided to represent Autobiography of a Yeti, purportedly dictated to the author by the Abominable Snowman himself. And our small, furry, endlessly surprising canine hero Freddie de la Haybelonging to failed oenophile William Frenchhas been recruited by MI6 to infiltrate a Russian spy ring. Needless to say, the other denizens of Corduroy Mansions have issues of their own. But all of them will be addressed with the wit and insight into the foibles of the human condition that have become the hallmark of this peerless storyteller.
Author Bio
▼▲Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the beloved bestseling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, the 44 Scotland Street series, and the Corduroy Mansions series. He is also the author of numerous childrens books. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh and has served on many national and international organizations concerned with bioethics. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and taught law at the University of Botswana. He lives in Scotland. Visit his website at www.alexandermccallsmith.com.
This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Editorial Reviews
▼▲"A new cast of characters to love . . . McCall Smith is a writer of such fond, heartfelt geniality that at the end of this cozy read, fans will be grateful that the series has just begun."
Entertainment Weekly, "A"
"McCall Smith cooks up a delicious story that seems part Restoration comedy and part Victorian novel, tossed with a dash of mystery and a dollop of satire. Corduroy Mansions is like the cloth of its titlecomfortable, easy, homey."
The Washington Post
"[Here is a] wonderful world of realistic characters getting up to real mischief in McCall Smiths velvety prose and vivid imagination."
USA Today
"Whimsical . . . McCall Smith specializes in subplots that punctuate the book like polka dots, relying on his considerable literary skills to link them into a merry pattern of human events."
The Washington Times
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