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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 Thames Embankment, the lovable and disheveled Rumpole "is at his rumpled best" (The New York Times).
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. Now, for the first time, the sensational story of the Penge Bungalow Murders case is told in full: how, shortly after the war, Rumpole took on the seemingly impossible task of defending young Simon Jerold, accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a German officer's gun. And how the inexperienced young brief was left alone to pursue the path of justice, in a case that was to echo through the Bailey for years to come.
Series 1:Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) is a down-at-heel yet brilliant barrister. Fond of quoting Wordsworth, he comes to the defence of shoplifting vicars, overly amorous teachers and many others who pass through the doors of the Old Bailey. Series 2:In this second series, Rumpole successfully clears a vicar of a shoplifting charge, proves a case of mistaken identity and defends a known Fascist on a charge under the Race Relations Act. Series 3:The third series sees Rumpole travel to the new African state of Neranga to defend the Minister for Home Affairs who has been charged with the murder of a high ranking Bishop. Back in the UK, he defends a client from a brother who is out to ruin him; outwits his old adversary, Judge Bullingham and recoups outstanding debts with the help of She Who Must Be Obeyed. All whilst apparently dead! Series 4:In this fourth series, Rumpole has such an argument with She who must be obeyed that he walks out. He defends an eccentric spinster accused of being a government whistle-blower and after an army sergeant is found stabbed to death wearing a womans dress, Rumpole is assigned to defend the accused murderer. And could it be Rumpoles last case when he makes exotic horse racing bet which will allow him to retire if he wins. Series 5:In this series, Horace Rumpoles clerk, Henry, is thinking of running off to Australia whilst She Who Must Be Obeyed decides its time for her to begin her own career in the legal profession. Rumpole defends his clergyman nephew in anecclesiastical court, against charges of adultery -of which the bishop takes a dim view. Seires 6:In this series, Rumpole agrees to defend an elitist restauranteur whom he dislikes when a mouse jumps out from one of the gourmet meals. All is not well at home either as She Who Must Be Obeyed goes on strike in the kitchen leaving the hungry barrister to his own devices for his dinners. Series 7:The 7th and final series of the multi award winning Rumpole of The Bailey. Rumpole is called to defend a family who is charged of being involved with devil worship and he finds himself in the unusual position of defending a police officer on a charge of falsifying a confession. Rumpole surprises She Who Must Be Obeyed with tickets for the Scales of Justice Ball and delights her when he leads her onto the dance floor. In the final episode Rumpole is charged with contempt of court and faces disbarment. All he has to do is apologise. But as always with Rumpole, its never going to be easy.
John 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 Rumpole of the Bailey. Bringing fourteen of Rumpole's most entertaining adventures (seven of which were collected in The Best of Rumpole) together with a fragment of a new story, Forever Rumpole proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Rumpole is never less than delightful.
Series 1:Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) is a down-at-heel yet brilliant barrister. Fond of quoting Wordsworth, he comes to the defence of shoplifting vicars, overly amorous teachers and many others who pass through the doors of the Old Bailey. Series 2:In this second series, Rumpole successfully clears a vicar of a shoplifting charge, proves a case of mistaken identity and defends a known Fascist on a charge under the Race Relations Act. Series 3:The third series sees Rumpole travel to the new African state of Neranga to defend the Minister for Home Affairs who has been charged with the murder of a high ranking Bishop. Back in the UK, he defends a client from a brother who is out to ruin him; outwits his old adversary, Judge Bullingham and recoups outstanding debts with the help of She Who Must Be Obeyed. All whilst apparently dead! Series 4:In this fourth series, Rumpole has such an argument with She who must be obeyed that he walks out. He defends an eccentric spinster accused of being a government whistle-blower and after an army sergeant is found stabbed to death wearing a womans dress, Rumpole is assigned to defend the accused murderer. And could it be Rumpoles last case when he makes exotic horse racing bet which will allow him to retire if he wins. Series 5:In this series, Horace Rumpoles clerk, Henry, is thinking of running off to Australia whilst She Who Must Be Obeyed decides its time for her to begin her own career in the legal profession. Rumpole defends his clergyman nephew in anecclesiastical court, against charges of adultery -of which the bishop takes a dim view. Seires 6:In this series, Rumpole agrees to defend an elitist restauranteur whom he dislikes when a mouse jumps out from one of the gourmet meals. All is not well at home either as She Who Must Be Obeyed goes on strike in the kitchen leaving the hungry barrister to his own devices for his dinners. Series 7:The 7th and final series of the multi award winning Rumpole of The Bailey. Rumpole is called to defend a family who is charged of being involved with devil worship and he finds himself in the unusual position of defending a police officer on a charge of falsifying a confession. Rumpole surprises She Who Must Be Obeyed with tickets for the Scales of Justice Ball and delights her when he leads her onto the dance floor. In the final episode Rumpole is charged with contempt of court and faces disbarment. All he has to do is apologise. But as always with Rumpole, its never going to be easy.
John Mortimer's bestselling barrister is back, in his most timely case yet Just in case Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders gave fans the impression that the Great Defender was resting on his laurels, his new case sends him at full sail into our panicky new world. Rumpole is asked to defend a Pakistani doctor who has been imprisoned without charge or trial on suspicion of aiding Al Qaeda. Meanwhile, on the home front, She Who Must Be Obeyed is threatening to share her intimate view of her husband in a tell-all memoir. The result is Rumpole at his most ironic and indomitable, and John Mortimer at his most entertaining.
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 or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome She Who Must Be Obeyed. These collected stories, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time, are a definitive introduction to one of the wisest and wittiest characters in British comic writing and a reminder of what justice should really be about. With a new introduction by Sam Leith, former literary editor of the Daily Telegraph and contributor to the Evening Standard, Guardian and Spectator.
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).
A model is murdered in this “first-rate” detective story by the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master (Kirkus Reviews). On a ship traveling back to England, Miss Agatha Troy finds Inspector Roderick Alleyn tedious and dull; he thinks she’s a bohemian cliché. They may be destined for romance, but there’s a murder in the way: No sooner has Alleyn settled in to his mother’s house, eager for a relaxing end to his vacation, than he gets a call that a model has been stabbed at the artists’ community down the road. And the talented Miss Troy is one of the community’s most prominent and outspoken members . . . “The doyenne of traditional mystery writers.” —The New York Times