It serves me right really as I thought that I'd really enjoy this novel by John Mortimer as the Rumpole stories were quite fun. It is however a product of its times, written in the 1980s, when novels about the foibles of the middle classes were popular and abundant. It is dated and rarely amusing as...
Rumpole at Christmas is a collection of previously uncollected Rumpole short stories written late in John Mortimer's life: there are some minor inconsistencies vis-à-vis the main body of the series, but what really matters here is that Mortimer's craftsmanship and sense of humor was going strong unt...
The song remains the same, but there's something so likable about Rumpole, that old curmudgeon of a London barrister, that it doesn't matter if each book feels a little like a repeat. On the surface, this story is just another Rumpole petty crime court case with the Timsons in-tow, however, sex slav...
Horace Rumpole, that Old Bailey hack, is at it again, preserving the innocent and undermining the pompous with his razor wit. A Rumpole Christmas comprises some heart-warming tales, but it's also somewhat sad to read these stories knowing they were published posthumously within the same year of John...
Rumpole of the Bailey is former barrister (lawyer) John Mortimer's first crack at fictionalizing his former life. His hero, Horace Rumpole, toils down at London's Old Bailey defending morally tarnished persons, who usually didn't "do it"...at least not this time around. This is a batch of humor to l...
bookshelves: fraudio, amusing, play-dramatisation, published-2006, winter20092010 Read in December, 2009 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...Another case for John Mortimer's foxy barrister. Blurb - If one man can be counted on to fight injustice and insist on a fair and decent trial for ever...
bookshelves: britain-england, fraudio, amusing, play-dramatisation, published-1980, re-read Read in October, 2009, read count: 2 The Splendours and Miseries of an Old Bailey Hack. Starring Maurice Denham as Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole.
bookshelves: britain-england, fraudio, amusing, play-dramatisation, published-1980 Read in October, 2009 ** spoiler alert ** The Splendours and Miseries of an Old Bailey Hack. Starring Maurice Denham as Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole.
bookshelves: play-dramatisation, amusing, fraudio, britain-england Read in October, 2009 The Splendours and Miseries of an Old Bailey Hack. Starring Maurice Denham as Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole. First broadcast in 1980.I love Rumpole stories.
bookshelves: britain-england, fraudio, amusing, mystery-thriller, play-dramatisation Read in June, 2009 ** spoiler alert ** Afternoon Play: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders Adaptation by Richard Stoneman of the novel by John Mortimer.It is the 1950s, a short decade after the end of the war,...
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