The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
by Alexander McCall Smith (Polygon, 2004); audiobook read by Hugh Laurie (W. F. Howes, 2004)
The somewhat unlikeable Professor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, German scholar and philologist, is drawn by way of his own pride and jealousy into several awkward (and at times very funny) situations. Hugh Laurie’s narration carries just enough facetiousness to keep the reader’s sympathy.