He is not a particularly gifted attorney, nor is he particularly fond of the law by courts if it comes to that, but he’d rather be swinging at a case than bowing to his wife Hilda, She Who Must Be Obeyed. Horace Rumpole, the irreverent, iconoclastic, claret swilling, poetry spouting barrister at law, is among the most beloved characters of English crime literature. His books in Penguin include: The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole The Collected Stories of Rumpole The First Rumpole Omnibus Rumpole and the Angel of Death Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders Rumpole and the Primrose Path Rumpole and the Reign of Terror Rumpole and the Younger Generation Rumpole at Christmas Rumpole Rests His Case The Second Rumpole Omnibus Forever Rumpole In Other Words Quite Honestly and Summer's Lease.These six short stories introduce all the lovable or not so lovable characters from the delightful Rumpole series. His most famous creation was the barrister Horace Rumpole, who featured in four novels and around eighty short stories. His fictional trilogy about the inexorable rise of an ambitious Tory MP in the Thatcher years (Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets) has recently been republished in Penguin Classics, together with his autobiography Clinging to the Wreckage and his play A Voyage round My Father.

Sir John Mortimer was a barrister, playwright and novelist.

Wodehouse will love, sees the magician of the Old Bailey at his unpredictable and brilliant best. John Mortimer's hilarious Rumpole novel, which fans of Sherlock Holmes and P.G. Why are the residents pursuing their vendetta against the Timson boy quite so strongly? Could they have a sinister reason for not wanting him on their street? And pretty soon he realizes something fishy is going on. Not that Hilda agrees, of course, but she's too busy completing her memoirs to dissuade him from taking an interest when one of the Timson children is given an ASBO for playing football in the street.

'One of the great comic creations of modern times' Evening StandardĪSBOs may be the pride and joy of New Labour, but they don't cut much ice with Horace Rumpole - he takes the old-fashioned view that if anyone is going to be threatened with a restriction of their liberty then some form of legal proceeding ought to be gone through first. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole - a delightful novel starring John Mortimer's iconic character

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