Rumpole a La Carte - Softcover

Mortimer, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140156097 ISBN 13: 9780140156096

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

Six new tales featuring everyone's favorite barrister, Horace Rupole--disheveled, polemical, and immensely fond of cigars, Wordsworth, and Chateau Thames Embankment. "One of the immortals of mystery fiction" (San Francisco Chronicle), Mortimer's Rumpole has also been featured on the popular PBS series, "Mystery!"

About this title

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.

Synopsis:

A collection of six tales all featuring Horace Rumpole. Characters such as She Who Must Be Obeyed, and the philandering Claude Erskine-Brown are back as Rumpole visits a snooty restaurant, where he enagages in a battle over mashed spuds and takes the unaccustomed role of prosecutor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140156097
• ISBN 13: 9780140156096
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256