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Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Six stories featuring an English barrister-turned-sleuth. In Rumpole and the Rights of Man, he finds at the European Court of Human Rights that international justice is as fallible as the domestic variety, while Rumpole and the Way Through the Woods involves him in a clash between hunters and animal rights activists.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In a collection of stories, curmudgeonly London barrister Horace Rumpole, recovering from a heart attack, takes on a nasty head nurse at his run-down convalescent center as he investigates the mysterious death of an elderly patient.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
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,...
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