John Mortimer
Author
Series
Rumpole of the Bailey volume 12
Language
English
Description
This release comprises four 45 minute BBC Radio 4 plays adapted by John Mortimer from four stories in his latest published collection, Rumpole and the Primrose Path. Rumpole is a wine-imbibing friend of the South London criminal classes, and the scourge of all QCs. Acting as narrator, he tells a series of stories involving legal chicanery, criminal derring-do and startling coincidence, spiced with a modicum of domestic strife at home.
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Series
Rumpole of the Bailey volume 16
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Five holiday tales feature the curmudgeon barrister in "Rumpole and Father Christmas," "Rumpole's Slimmed Down Christmas," "Rumpole and the Boy," "Rumpole and the Old Familiar Faces," and "Rumpole and the Christmas Break."
Author
Series
Rumpole of the Bailey volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
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, Hilda-She Who Must Be Obeyed! With his passion for poetry, and a nose equally sensitive to the whiff of wrongdoing and the bouquet of a Château...
Author
Series
Rumpole of the Bailey volume Related works
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Author
Series
Rumpole of the Bailey volume 14
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English