Rumpole and the Golden Thread
by:
John Mortimer (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140063318 (0140063315)
Publish date: October 2nd 1984
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Series: Rumpole of the Bailey omnibus (#5)
the title story manages to weave old-fashioned morality, English legalese, colonialism, and the need for African independence into an inoffensive little mystery. but is that a valediction or a condemnation? this take on a loaded topic is certainly tasteful and wryly amusing. but should it be?in gene...
Rumpole travels to Africa, takes on the art world, defends a country squiress, and figures out an ingenius way to collect the fees that are owed him in this collection of short tales, read by Bill Wallis, featuring the always entertaining legal eagle and his cohorts.