IN THE PORTUGUESE IRREGULAR VERBS SERIES
Portuguese Irregular Verbs
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
IN THE 44 SCOTLAND STREET SERIES
44 Scotland Street
Espresso Tales
Love over Scotland
The World According to Bertie
The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2008 by Alexander McCall Smith
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McCall Smith, Alexander, [date]
The comforts of a muddy Saturday : an Isabel Dalhousie novel / Alexander McCall Smith.
p. cm.
1. Women philosophers—Fiction. 2. Fraud—Fiction. 3. Edinburgh (Scotland)—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6063.C326C66 2008
823'.914—dc22 2008018573
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