Rumpole a la Carte

Rumpole a la Carte

by JohnMortimer (Author)

Synopsis

Six new tales featuring everyone's favorite barrister, Horace Rupole--disheveled, polemical, and immensely fond of cigars, Wordsworth, and Chateau Thames Embankment. "One of the immortals of mystery fiction" (San Francisco Chronicle), Mortimer's Rumpole has also been featured on the popular PBS series, "Mystery!"

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 245
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 31 Jul 1997

ISBN 10: 0140156097
ISBN 13: 9780140156096

Author Bio
John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.