The Third Rumpole Omnibus

by John Mortimer

Overview

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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140257410
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/01/1998
Series:	Rumpole
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	752
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.73(h) x 1.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

The Third Rumpole OmnibusRumpole and the Age of Miracles

Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation
Rumpole and the Barrow Boy
Rumpole and the Age of Miracles
Rumpole and the Tap End
Rumpole and the Chambers Party
Rumpole and the Portia
Rumpole and the Quality of Life

Rumpole à la Carte

Rumpole à la Carte
Rumpole and the Summer Of Discontent
Rumpole and the Right to Silence
Rumpole at Sea
Rumpole and the Quacks
Rumpole for the Prosecution

Rumpole and the Angel of Death

Rumpole and The Model Prisoner
Rumpole and the Way through the Woods
Hilda's Story
Rumpole and the Little Boy Lost
Rumpole and the Rights of Man
Rumpole and the Angel of Death