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Rumpole Rests His Case is a 2002 collection of new short stories by John Mortimer about defence barrister Horace Rumpole. The stories were freshly written and not adapted from any previous scripts he had written for the Rumpole TV series (1978-1992).
- John Clifford Mortimer
- 2002
1. Jan. 2001 · With his passion for Wordsworth, his kindly disposition toward the defendant, and a nose equally sensitive to the whiff of wrongdoing and the bouquet of a Chateau Thames Embankment, the disheveled Rumpole is back and in impeccable form.
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The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the “great defender of muddled and sinful humanity” triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness while he tiptoes precariously through the domestic territory of his wife, Hilda-She Who Must Be Obeyed!
- Paperback
Rumpole Rests His Case - seven hilarious stories starring John Mortimer's unforgettable barrister.
11. Nov. 2002 · "Rumpole and the Camberwell Carrot" brings Rumpole into a case defending a Member of Parliament (MP) charged with drug use, and the tactics of a tabloid newspaper looking for a scandal. There is a side issue of a marital problem between Claude and Phillida, members of Chambers.
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- Hardcover
- John Mortimer
1. Jan. 2002 · The six new stories in Rumpole and the Primrose Path find Horace Rumpole-despite a heart attack that left him at death's door in the previous volume-deftly parrying everything from the admonitions of his wife, Hilda, to the vagaries of his legal colleagues and their new director of marketing, Luci. With her cell phone, corporate ...
- John Mortimer
25. Nov. 2003 · In "Rumpole and the Old Familiar Faces," Horace laments his reunion with a former blackmailer, now turned lord of the manor, whom Horace persuades to donate ill-gotten gains for the restoration of a church steeple.
- John Mortimer
