Rumpole and the Angel of Death

by John Mortimer Narrated by Jill Tanner, Patrick Tull

Overview

Internationally acclaimed author John Mortimer returns with a richly entertaining volume of six stories featuring Britain's most comic, courageous, and corpulent barrister, Horace Rumpole. Many know the colorful character through the

immensely popular PBS television series, Rumpole of the Bailey. This delightful collection of short stories expands the Rumpole legend.

In these tales, Rumpole's wry humor is deftly augmented by a new voice: that of his wife, Hilda. In Hilda's Story, She Who Must Be Obeyed turns an uncompromising eye on Rumpole's idiosyncrasies. In another first, Rumpole unleashes his courtroom demeanor on the European Court of Human Rights in Rumpole and the Rights of Man.

Stories include: 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; and Rumpole and the Angel of Death.

The San Francisco Chronicle praises John Mortimer as “one of the immortals of mystery fiction.”

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

As always, Mortimer writes with a Wodehousian élan but, unlike Wodehouse, he incorporates a spirited if indirect wrestling with the social and political issues of the day…Rumpole is by turns acutely sensitive and brazenly bullheaded, as Mortimer dances nimbly around thorny subjects with his trademark ease, applying all-knowing wit and painstaking characterization.”

Booklist

The irascible but always entertaining Rumpole is back, this time in a series of short stories that have him facing the usual assortment of human detritus at the Old Bailey…Mortimer’s stories may lack the gritty drama associated with the hard-boiled arm of the genre, but what he does provide is class, charm, and a wry commentary on a way of life.”

Kirkus Reviews

Six more briefs for the indomitable defender of the guiltiest-looking defendants the Old Bailey has ever seen…give Rumpole more than his share of hopeless cases…The bonus here, ‘Hilda’s Story,’ gives Mrs. Rumpole, She Who Must Be Obeyed, the chance to recount Rumpole’s defense of an alleged parricide from her own point of view.”

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170877782
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	11/11/2011
Series:	Rumpole
Edition description:	Unabridged

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