The trials of Rumpole

Mortimer, John,1923-2009,

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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.

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Publish Date: 25/03/2021

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‘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

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Weight 157 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 12 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

208

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.914 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K