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Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer
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Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage
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
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
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 Reign of Terror (Popular Penguins Crime) by Sir John Mortimer
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Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | 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
Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer
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Category: General Fiction | 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's Return by John Mortimer
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Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage
'A fruity, foxy masterpiece, defender of our wilting faith in mankind' Sunday TimesHorace Rumpole - the rascally, Wordsworth-quoting Old Bailey hack - should be enjoying his retirement. Soaking unhappily in the Florida sun with his wife, Hilda (She Who Must Be Obeyed), it is safely assumed by all that R ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Rumpole by Sir John Mortimer
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Category: Classics/Literature | 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
The Trials of Rumpole by John Mortimer
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'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 L ...Show more
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