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Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories by Sir John Mortimer
Category: Fiction
Horace Rumpole lives alongside Sherlock Holmes, Pickwick and Jeeves as one of the immortal characters of English fiction. With his curmudgeonly wit, his literary allusions, his disdain for personal ambition and his lack of pomposity, he has, according to the "Daily Telegraph", 'ascended to the pantheon ...Show more
Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories by Sir John Mortimer
Category: Humour
These are the very best of the Rumpole stories. Over thirty years John Mortimer wrote around eighty Rumpole stories, as well as four Rumpole novels, as the greatest of all fictional lawyers went from defending wife-murderers to defending hunt-saboteurs and alleged Islamic terrorists. "Forever Rumpole" c ...Show more
Mortimer / Quite Honestly (Audio CD) by Sir John Mortimer
Category: Audio Books
A hilarious crime novel by bestselling Rumpole author John Mortimer. Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. She's got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences and the offer of a job in advertising. With all this, she felt she should 'pay back her debt to society' and 'do a little good in th ...Show more
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror (Popular Penguins Crime) by Sir John Mortimer
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A respected Pakistani doctor is imprisoned on suspicion of being a terrorist, and the British government refuses to release any information to Rumpole regarding the evidence against him. The case appears hopeless and it is almost certain that the accused will remain incarcerated indefinitely without tri ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Rumpole by Sir John Mortimer
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk o ...Show more
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