Fans of the indomitable Horace Rumpole and his redoubtable creator, John Mortimer, may rejoice. At nearly 84, Mortimer has produced in “Rumpole Misbehaves” one of the best of the 16 story collections ...

Lucky is the man, woman, or child whose Christmas gift list is made up of readers. There’s much to choose from this season, not the least being this fine, “best of” collection of stories featuring the ...

Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer Viking ?16.99, pp244 'I don't know what you think about being young,' ruminates Rumpole in his first novel-length adventure. 'To me, it's a time ...

"Rumpole, you must move with the times." "If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them." She and her sister Rosie have been working on an even more emotional ...

John Mortimer, alas, is dead but long live Horace Rumpole. The character who began life in a Play for Today in 1975 and who puffed and bluffed his way through three decades of Thames Television series ...

My editor, a good and wise man, suggested that for Christmas Day we might seek kinder, gentler fare than the serial killers, ax murderers and insane cannibals who often populate these reviews. He even ...

FANS of Rumpole of the Bailey -- both the television series and the books on which it is based -- have reason to break out a choice bottle of Château Thames Embankment. Rumpole is back after a ...

Two weeks ago we looked at John le Carre's early portrait of his master spy, George Smiley. Today, we have le Carre's slightly older, more lighthearted contemporary, John Mortimer, presenting his much ...

Horace Rumpole, Britain's most famous fictional barrister, is to confront the injustice of the Asbo in a stinging literary attack on Labour's record on law and order. Rumpole's creator, Sir John ...

What a magnificent antidote John Mortimer offers to those indolent types who have apoplexies at the thought of working after 65. Mortimer will never see 80 again, but shows no sign of letting up. His ...

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