Leo Rumpole Mckern

Author : George Whaley
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 1921410892
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leo 'Rumpole' McKern written by George Whaley and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited biography tells the story of a working-class Sydney boy who left Australian shores in the 1940s and went on to an extraordinary and renowned acting career. In England he become a major Shakespearean actor and made many films. Yet it was the gravelly-voiced, potato-faced Horace Rumpole in the long-running series Rumpole of the Bailey that made him a household name in Britain and Australia.

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143036111
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rumpole renaissance continues to build, and now the beloved barrister’s many followers have a special reason to rejoice: a sensational full-length Rumpole novel that at last relates the oft-mentioned but never revealed story of Rumpole’s first case, the Penge Bungalow affair. Looking back half a century into a very different world, Rumpole recalls a man accused of murdering his father and his father’s friend with a pistol taken from a dead German pilot. It was this trial and its outcome that put Rumpole on the map and shaped him into the cantankerous defender of justice that readers know and love. This is a must-read for every Rumpole fan and a compelling invitation to new readers.

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101545879
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forever Rumpole written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Mortimer—novelist, playwright, memoirist, and the author of more than eighty Rumpole short stories—will never be forgotten. While still a practicing barrister, Mortimer took up the pen, and the rest is literary history. His stories featuring the cigar-chomping, cheap-wine-tippling Rumpole and his wife, Hilda (aka "She Who Must Be Obeyed"), have justly earned their place in the pantheon of mystery fiction legends, becoming the basis for the very successful television series Rumpole of the Bailey. Bringing fourteen of Rumpole's most entertaining adventures (seven of which were collected in The Best of Rumpole) together with a fragment of a new story, Forever Rumpole proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Rumpole is never less than delightful.

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141960787
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Rumpole Omnibus written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1988-03-31 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Rumpole Omnibus - a classic collection of John Mortimer's greatest character 'Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal' P. D James, Mail on Sunday 'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James, Observer Horace Rumpole turns down yet another invitation to exchange the joys and sorrows of life as an Old Bailey hack for the delights of the sunshine state, where Senior Citizens loll on beaches and the sarcastic tones of the Mad Bull (Judge Roger Bullingham) are heard no more. He settles instead for the beaded bubbles of Chateau Pommeroy's ordinary claret, the domestic chill emanating from She Who Must Be Obeyed, and his role 'extraordinaire' as Defender of the Faith: 'Never plead guilty'. This wonderful collection of Rumpole will be loved by fans of John Mortimer, as well as readers of Sherlock Holmes, P.D. James and P.G. Wodehouse. 'One of the great comic creations of modern times' Evening Standard 'There is a truth in Rumpole that is told with brilliance and grace' Daily Telegraph 'Rumpole remains and absolute delight' The Times Sir John Mortimer was a barrister, playwright and novelist. His fictional political trilogy of Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets has recently been republished in Penguin Classics, together with Clinging to the Wreckage and his play A Voyage round My Father. His most famous creation was the barrister Horace Rumpole, who featured in four novels and around eighty short stories. 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.

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780745134765
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rumpole for the Defence written by John Mortimer and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101155698
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rumpole Christmas written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever collection of Rumpole Christmas stories? just in time for the holidays A Rumpole Christmas is a collection of five holiday stories?never before published in book form? depicting the Old Bailey Hack at his lovable best. In ?Rumpole and Father Christmas,? the English barrister encounters a familiar-looking Santa who he thinks is a thief. In ?Rumpole?s Slimmed Down Christmas,? he goes to a new-age spa when ?She who must be obeyed? insists that he lose a few pounds. In ?Rumpole and the Christmas Break,? he protects Hilda as a shady judge flirts with her while on a holiday that turns out to be anything but relaxing. Witty and compulsively readable, this irresistible new collection will provide solace to the legions of fans lamenting John Mortimer?s death early this year.

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141994711
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rumpole's Return written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A fruity, foxy masterpiece, defender of our wilting faith in mankind' Sunday Times Horace Rumpole is in a strange state that could only be described as a kind of air-conditioned purgatory: he has retired to Florida with his wife, Hilda (She Who Must Be Obeyed). It is safely assumed the Old Bailey hack's wig has been hung up for good. But when a rather unkempt civil servant is mixed up in the mysterious death of a minor aristocrat, Rumpole seizes the opportunity to escape a life of leisure. He is soon back in court (via a budget airline) to do battle once more with Judge 'Mad Bull' Bullingham.

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140263145
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rumpole and the Angel of Death written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In John Mortimer's latest collection of Rumpole stories the comic, courageous, and corpulent "great defender ofmuddled and sinful humanity" is joined by a winning cast of villains and victims in tales whose wry humor andsparkling wit deftly send up the British legal system. In Rumpole and the Angel of Death our hero achieves new,resounding triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness. "Rumpole and the Way through the Woods"involves Rumpole in the world of hunters and the hunted, animal rights and human wrongs. In "Rumpole and theRights of Man," he finds at the European Court of Human Rights that international justice is as fallible as thedomestic variety. And for the first time, Hila, She Who Must Be Obeyed, tells a story all her own. This richlyentertaining volume will delight fans who have been waiting, Rumpoleless, for more than two years, and will convertnew adherents to the faith.

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670844593
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rumpole on Trial written by John Mortimer and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most beloved barrister ever to sway a jury--or savor a claret--is back on the case in this collection of seven new stories. In one story, our hero fends off the advances of a mysterious young woman seeking a barrister to defend her husband for a murder not yet committed.

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Select Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140126952
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rumpole's Last Case written by John Mortimer and published by Select Penguin. This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: