{"title":"John Mortimer","description":"John Mortimer was the author of fourteen other Rumpole books, many of which formed the basis for the PBS-TV series Rumpole of the Bailey. The first book featuring his most famous character, Horace Rumpole, was published by Penguin in 1980. His work also includes many novels and plays and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography. A former barrister, Mortimer, who was knighted in 1998, lived in Oxfordshire, England. He died in January of 2009.","products":[{"product_id":"forever-rumpole-the-best-of-the-rumpole-stories-paperback","title":"Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Mortimer--novelist, playwright, memoirist, and the author of more than eighty Rumpole short stories--will never be forgotten. While still a practicing barrister, Mortimer took up the pen, and the rest is literary history. His stories featuring the cigar-chomping, cheap-wine-tippling Rumpole and his wife, Hilda (aka \"She Who Must Be Obeyed\"), have justly earned their place in the pantheon of mystery fiction legends, becoming the basis for the very successful television series \u003ci\u003eRumpole of the Bailey\u003c\/i\u003e. Bringing fourteen of Rumpole's most entertaining adventures (seven of which were collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Best of Rumpole\u003c\/i\u003e) together with a fragment of a new story, \u003ci\u003eForever Rumpole\u003c\/i\u003e proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Rumpole is never less than delightful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103715594463,"sku":"9780143122142","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Xq1luhx78c9780143122142.webp?v=1781097492"},{"product_id":"the-second-rumpole-omnibus-rumpole-for-the-defence-rumpole-and-the-golden-thread-rumpoles-last-case-paperback","title":"The Second Rumpole Omnibus: Rumpole for the Defence\/Rumpole and the Golden Thread\/Rumpole's Last Case - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains twenty tales featuring beloved barrister Horace Rumpole as he turns down another invitation to exchange the joys and sorrows of life as an Old Bailey hack for the delights of the Sunshine State -- where senior citizens loll on beaches and the sarcastic tones of the Mad Bull (Judge Roger Bullingham) are heard no more. Instead, Rumpole settles for the beaded bubbles of Château Pommeroy's ordinary claret, and his \u003ci\u003erôle extraordinaire\u003c\/i\u003e as Defender of the Faith: \"Never Plead Guilty.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Mortimer has created one of the legendary fictional detectives . . . a barrister [who's] as much a detective as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Sunday Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wonderfully amusing . . . full of pithy writing . . . witty and opinionated.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103757439199,"sku":"9780140089585","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BlUeaT8tbC9780140089585.webp?v=1781097573"},{"product_id":"rumpole-and-the-penge-bungalow-murders-paperback","title":"Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Rumpole renaissance continues to build, and now the beloved barrister's many followers have a special reason to rejoice: a sensational full-length Rumpole novel that at last relates the oft-mentioned but never revealed story of Rumpole's first case, the Penge Bungalow affair. Looking back half a century into a very different world, Rumpole recalls a man accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a pistol taken from a dead German pilot. It was this trial and its outcome that put Rumpole on the map and shaped him into the cantankerous defender of justice that readers know and love. This is a must-read for every Rumpole fan and a compelling invitation to new readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104404115679,"sku":"9780143036111","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/52waMbb_8-9780143036111.webp?v=1781108234"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/john-mortimer.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}