Author: John Mortimer
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141994703
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James Horace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from Pommeroy's wine bar, is back for further misadventures. Amid an unfortunate and temporary downturn in London crime, the Old Bailey Hack sits in Chambers (he never writes at home for fear of She Who Must Be Obeyed) and picks up his pen to recount six classic tales of his recent trials. Here he deals with, among others, a clergyman on a shoplifting rampage, a backstage theatrical murder, a villain with unfortunate sartorial taste and, worst of all, the possibility that he may have to hang up his wig and retire. 'Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal' P. D. James
Trials of Rumpole
Author: John Mortimer
Publisher: Clipper Audio
ISBN: 9781405695947
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Horace Rumpole, whose court scenes are proverbial, and whose home is ruled by Mrs Rumpole - She Who Must Be Obeyed - is back in these short stories: 'Rumpole and the Man of God', 'Rumpole and the Showfolk', 'Rumpole and the Fascist Beast', 'Rumpole and the Case of Identity', 'Rumpole and the Course of True Love' and 'Rumpole and the Age for Retirement'.
Publisher: Clipper Audio
ISBN: 9781405695947
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Horace Rumpole, whose court scenes are proverbial, and whose home is ruled by Mrs Rumpole - She Who Must Be Obeyed - is back in these short stories: 'Rumpole and the Man of God', 'Rumpole and the Showfolk', 'Rumpole and the Fascist Beast', 'Rumpole and the Case of Identity', 'Rumpole and the Course of True Love' and 'Rumpole and the Age for Retirement'.
Rumpole Misbehaves
Author: John Mortimer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670018307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
His ire raised by a series of procedural abuses through which children have been imprisoned by neighborhood snobs without trial for innocent activities, barrister Horace Rumpole defends a youth who has been targeted for playing on a posh street, but his efforts are complicated by Rumpole's jokester colleagues. 60,000 first printing.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670018307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
His ire raised by a series of procedural abuses through which children have been imprisoned by neighborhood snobs without trial for innocent activities, barrister Horace Rumpole defends a youth who has been targeted for playing on a posh street, but his efforts are complicated by Rumpole's jokester colleagues. 60,000 first printing.
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
Author: John Mortimer
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241968143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Horace Rumpole - cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients - often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. Now, for the first time, the sensational story of the Penge Bungalow Murders case is told in full: how, shortly after the war, Rumpole took on the seemingly impossible task of defending young Simon Jerold, accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a German officer's gun. And how the inexperienced young brief was left alone to pursue the path of justice, in a case that was to echo through the Bailey for years to come.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241968143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Horace Rumpole - cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients - often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. Now, for the first time, the sensational story of the Penge Bungalow Murders case is told in full: how, shortly after the war, Rumpole took on the seemingly impossible task of defending young Simon Jerold, accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a German officer's gun. And how the inexperienced young brief was left alone to pursue the path of justice, in a case that was to echo through the Bailey for years to come.
Forever Rumpole
Author: John Mortimer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101545879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
John Mortimer—novelist, playwright, memoirist, and the author of more than eighty Rumpole short stories—will never be forgotten. While still a practicing barrister, Mortimer took up the pen, and the rest is literary history. His stories featuring the cigar-chomping, cheap-wine-tippling Rumpole and his wife, Hilda (aka "She Who Must Be Obeyed"), have justly earned their place in the pantheon of mystery fiction legends, becoming the basis for the very successful television series Rumpole of the Bailey. Bringing fourteen of Rumpole's most entertaining adventures (seven of which were collected in The Best of Rumpole) together with a fragment of a new story, Forever Rumpole proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Rumpole is never less than delightful.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101545879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
John Mortimer—novelist, playwright, memoirist, and the author of more than eighty Rumpole short stories—will never be forgotten. While still a practicing barrister, Mortimer took up the pen, and the rest is literary history. His stories featuring the cigar-chomping, cheap-wine-tippling Rumpole and his wife, Hilda (aka "She Who Must Be Obeyed"), have justly earned their place in the pantheon of mystery fiction legends, becoming the basis for the very successful television series Rumpole of the Bailey. Bringing fourteen of Rumpole's most entertaining adventures (seven of which were collected in The Best of Rumpole) together with a fragment of a new story, Forever Rumpole proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Rumpole is never less than delightful.