The Trials of Rumpole (Penguin Modern Classics)

Author: Mortimer, John

Brand: Penguin Classics

Color: White

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 208

Release Date: 31-05-2022

Part Number: 13514

Details: 'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James

Horace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from Pommeroy's wine bar, is back for further misadventures. Amid an unfortunate and temporary downturn in London crime, the Old Bailey Hack sits in Chambers (he never writes at home for fear of She Who Must Be Obeyed) and picks up his pen to recount six classic tales of his recent trials. Here he deals with, among others, a clergyman on a shoplifting rampage, a backstage theatrical murder, a villain with unfortunate sartorial taste and, worst of all, the possibility that he may have to hang up his wig and retire.

'Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal' P. D. James

EAN: 9780241474433

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.6 inches

Languages: English