The Third Rumpole Omnibus

The Third Rumpole Omnibus - Paperback

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The Third Rumpole Omnibus

The Third Rumpole Omnibus - Paperback

by John Mortimer
$32.00
Sale price  $32.00 Regular price 

Book Overview

by John Mortimer (Author)

This compilation of witty mysteries captures John Mortimer's deft writing. Rumpole a la Carte, a delightful discourse on the British legal system, takes us from a restaurant battle over Rumpole's 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, and courtroom strategies a little too lunatic force Rumpole to face the Disciplinary Committee of the Bar Council. Rumpole and the Angel of Death offers a comic commentary on cruelty to animals, human rights, and the fallibility of the justice system. The Third Rumpole Omnibus promises insight and laughter from the barrister who's "as much a detective as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot" (The Boston Sunday Globe).

Author Biography

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.

Number of Pages: 752
Dimensions: 1.9 x 7.7 x 5 IN
Publication Date: March 01, 1998
ISBN9780140257410
Author John Mortimer
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 1998
LanguageENG- English
Pages752
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About John Mortimer

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.

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