This compilation of witty mysteries captures John MortimerÆs deft writing. Rumpole a la Carte, a delightful discourse on the British legal system, takes us from a restaurant battle over RumpoleÆs mashed spuds to a confrontation with a detective-novelist on a ship. The zany yarns of Rumpole on Trial are ingenious: devil worshippers, Juvenile Court, a mysterious seductress searching for a barrister to defend her husband for a murder not yet committed,...

Six new tales featuring everyone's favorite barrister, Horace Rumpole - disheveled, polemical, and immensely fond of cigars, Wordsworth, and Château Thames Embankment. He once again takes centre stage in these delightful mysteries. Delicious characters such as Rumpole's wife, Hilda (otherwise known as She Who Must Be Obeyed) and philandering colleague Claude Erskine-Brown accompany the cantankerous barrister as he visits a snooty restaurant and engages...

Rumpole's latest client is an Asian-English doctor accused of terrorism and Rumpole is determined that the man receive a fair trial despite the new anti-terrorism laws.

Anti-Social Behavior Orders, commonly known as ASBOs, are the New Labour governments pride and joy. A child who plays or even loiters in an unfriendly street can, on the complaint of neighbors, have an ASBO slapped on him. If he offends again hell be found in breach of his ASBO and thrown in jail without a trial. All this, of course, raises the wrath of everyones favorite barrister Horace Rumpole when he is called upon to defend...

A humorous and heartwarming portrait of beloved novelist John Mortimer's early years. After his highly eccentric lawyer father Clifford Mortimer is struck with blindness, John must deal with his father's decreasing ability to take care of himself.

Deborah Kerr stars as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw, co-written by Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and directed by Jack Clayton (Room at the Top).

"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories--many of which are difficult or nearly impossible to find anywhere else"--Provided by publisher.