Rumpole and the Reign of Terror - Hardcover

Mortimer, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670038040 ISBN 13: 9780670038046

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2006

Synopsis

A follow-up to Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders finds the curmudgeonly barrister struggling to defend a Pakistani doctor who has been falsely accused of aiding al Qaeda, an effort that is complicated by Rumpole's exacting wife's decision to record her life story. 60,000 first printing.

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Review:

Mortimer delivers another first class mystery. (A)
"Entertainment Weekly"
As ever, Mortimer proves himself master of the bon mot, cutting aside, and glorious run-on sentence. . . . Another delightfully entertaining and thought-provoking novel.
"The Boston Globe"

aMortimer delivers another first class mystery. (A)a
a"Entertainment Weekly"
aAs ever, Mortimer proves himself master of the bon mot, cutting aside, and glorious run-on sentence. . . . Another delightfully entertaining and thought-provoking novel.a
a"The Boston Globe"

"Mortimer delivers another first class mystery. (A)"
-Entertainment Weekly

"As ever, Mortimer proves himself master of the bon mot, cutting aside, and glorious run-on sentence. . . . Another delightfully entertaining and thought-provoking novel."
-The Boston Globe

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0670038040
• ISBN 13: 9780670038046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 183