A Rumpole Christmas

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Author: John Mortimer

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-10-29

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1101155698

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The first ever collection of Rumpole Christmas stories? just in time for the holidays A Rumpole Christmas is a collection of five holiday stories?never before published in book form? depicting the Old Bailey Hack at his lovable best. In ?Rumpole and Father Christmas,? the English barrister encounters a familiar-looking Santa who he thinks is a thief. In ?Rumpole?s Slimmed Down Christmas,? he goes to a new-age spa when ?She who must be obeyed? insists that he lose a few pounds. In ?Rumpole and the Christmas Break,? he protects Hilda as a shady judge flirts with her while on a holiday that turns out to be anything but relaxing. Witty and compulsively readable, this irresistible new collection will provide solace to the legions of fans lamenting John Mortimer?s death early this year.

Forever Rumpole

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Author: John Mortimer

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-11-10

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1101545879

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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.

Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders

Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders PDF

Author: John Mortimer

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-10-25

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780143036111

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The 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.

Christmas at Rumpole Mansion

Christmas at Rumpole Mansion PDF

Author: Karen Mezek Leimert

Publisher: Harvest House Pub

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9780890817100

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There is a very special Christmas at the Rumpole Mansion the year grumpy old Mr. Scratchly Rat comes to live there and a young mouse softens him up with a very generous act.

Rumpole at Christmas

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Author: John Mortimer

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9781408491935

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Rumpole's idea of a good Christmas is exchanging presents with She Who Must Be Obeyed before settling down to the traditionalturkey with all the trimmings. But, as Rumpole will soon discover, the criminal fraternity never rests.

Rumpole Misbehaves

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Author: John Mortimer

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780670018307

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His ire raised by a series of procedural abuses through which children have been imprisoned by neighborhood snobs without trial for innocent activities, barrister Horace Rumpole defends a youth who has been targeted for playing on a posh street, but his efforts are complicated by Rumpole's jokester colleagues. 60,000 first printing.

The Collected Stories of Rumpole

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Author: John Mortimer

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2013-04-04

Total Pages: 752

ISBN-13: 0141198826

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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.

The First Rumpole Omnibus

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Author: John Mortimer

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1983-09-29

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 014006768X

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Rumpole of the Bailey -- The trials of Rumpole -- Rumpole's return.

A Rumpole Christmas

A Rumpole Christmas PDF

Author: John Mortimer

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 9780670021352

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Five holiday tales by the late screenwriter and best-selling author feature the curmudgeon barrister and include "Rumpole and Father Christmas," "Rumpole's Slimmed Down Christmas" and "Rumpole and the Christmas Break."

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries PDF

Author: Otto Penzler

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 0345802985

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The Edgar Award-winning editor collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories—from Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy, to Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain. • “Anyone who cares about the best mystery writing of the past century and beyond would be lucky to receive this thick volume during the holidays." —The Washington Post This collection touches on all aspects of the holiday season, and all types of mysteries. They are suspenseful, funny, frightening, and poignant. Included are puzzles by Mary Higgins Clark, Isaac Asimov, and Ngaio Marsh; uncanny tales in the tradition of A Christmas Carol by Peter Lovesey and Max Allan Collins; O. Henry-like stories by Stanley Ellin and Joseph Shearing, stories by pulp icons John D. MacDonald and Damon Runyon; comic gems from Donald E. Westlake and John Mortimer; and many, many more. Almost any kind of mystery you’re in the mood for--suspense, pure detection, humor, cozy, private eye, or police procedural—can be found in these pages. FEATURING: - Unscrupulous Santas - Crimes of Christmases Past and Present - Festive felonies - Deadly puddings - Misdemeanors under the mistletoe - Christmas cases for classic characters including Sherlock Holmes, Brother Cadfael, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Ellery Queen, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Inspector Ghote, A.J. Raffles, and Nero Wolfe.