
Part of Series
In Mortimer's latest collection of Rumpole stories, the comic, courageous, and corpulent "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" is joined by a winning cast of villains and victims in tales whose wry humor and sparkling wit deftly send up the British legal system. Contents: “Rumpole and the Model Prisoner” “Rumpole and the Way Through the Wood” “Hilda’s Story” “Rumpole and the Little Boy Lost” “Rumpole and the Rights of Man” “Rumpole and the Angel of Death”
Author

John Clifford Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and former practising barrister. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole stories and a trilogy of political novels, Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets, featuring Leslie Titmuss - a character as brilliant as Rumpole. John Mortimer received a knighthood for his services to the arts in 1998. Series: Rumpole of the Bailey Rapstone Chronicles


