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Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories by Sir John Mortimer
Category: Fiction
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
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
How We Fish - The New Book from the Fishing Brains Behind the Hit TV Series GONE FISHING, with a Foreword by Bob Mortimer by Bob Mortimer (Foreword by); Paul Whitehouse; John Bailey
Category: Nature
Paul Whitehouse and fishing expert John Bailey celebrate the timeless joy of fishing.Paul Whitehouse and John Bailey have been devout fishermen for longer than they care to remember. A hobby, past time or sport - call it what you want - they have felt the pull of the water ever since they were kids and ...Show more
Mortimer / Quite Honestly (Audio CD) by Sir John Mortimer
Category: Audio
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 Rests His Case by John Mortimer
Category: Fiction
The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness while he tiptoes precariously through the domestic territory of his wife, Hi ...Show more
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer
Category: Fiction
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.<brNow, for the first time, the sensationa ...Show more
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders: Popular Penguins by John Mortimer
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
John Mortimer's Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murderssees our eponymous hero tackle his first ever case. It is just after the war and two RAF heroes are found shot dead. Simon Jerold, the son of one of the victims, is the only suspect and young Rumpole is given the hopeless task of defending him. But R ...Show more
Rumpole and the Primrose Path by John Mortimer
Category: Fiction
Everyone thought Rumpole had received his last judgement - his dickey ticker failing him in front of Judge Bullingham. And indeed, now that he's tucked away in the Primrose Path Nursing Home, it seems that his colleagues don't expect him back - especially since they are busy organising his memorial serv ...Show more
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror by John Mortimer
Category: Fiction
Justice isn't blind ? it's just a little short sighted and weak around the knees.. . His wig may be yellowing and his gown might be in tatters, but Rumpole will not give up the good fight - not while there's injustice to battle. When a distressed TiffanyTimson (of the infamous South London clan of ...Show more
Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Horace Rumpole, the old boy committed to defending the apparently indefensible, trusting of a jury, scornful of the law's pomposities, appears here in a new edition of the 1978 iconic Rumpole debut.This volume collects the much-loved stories 'Rumpole and the Younger Generation', 'Rumpole and the Alterna ...Show more
Rumpole: the Sleeping Partners and Other Stories - 3 BBC Radio 4 Dramatisations by John Mortimer (Read by); Benedict Cumberbatch (Read by); Full Cast Production Staff (Read by); Jasmine Hyde (Read by); Timothy West (Read by)
Category: Audio
Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young, feisty, devastatingly acute Horace Rumpole in this collection of cracking cases, also starring Timothy West as the older Rumpole. Rumpole and the Old Boy Net: With the help of his new pupil, Miss Phillida Trant, Rumpole must defend Mr Napier Lee, who is charged wit ...Show more