Rumpole And The Penge Bungalow Murders

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 : 1101006927
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rumpole and the Primrose Path written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Rumpole Rests His Case, legions of fans welcomed back the curmudgeonly London barrister they had loved for years?and they are eager for more. The six new stories in Rumpole and the Primrose Path find Horace Rumpole?despite a heart attack that left him at death?s door in the previous volume?deftly parrying everything from the admonitions of his wife, Hilda, to the vagaries of his legal colleagues and their new director of marketing, Luci. With her cell phone, corporate jargon, glossy brochures, and plans to give their chambers a new image, Luci presumes Rumpole is soon to expire, and has been planning his memorial service. But the witty and irreverent Rumpole, sharp as ever, is far from hanging up his wig!

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670018307
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rumpole Misbehaves written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His ire raised by a series of procedural abuses through which children have been imprisoned by neighborhood snobs without trial for innocent activities, barrister Horace Rumpole defends a youth who has been targeted for playing on a posh street, but his efforts are complicated by Rumpole's jokester colleagues. 60,000 first printing.

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
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 : 0141198826
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Stories of Rumpole written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome She Who Must Be Obeyed. These collected stories, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time, are a definitive introduction to one of the wisest and wittiest characters in British comic writing and a reminder of what justice should really be about. With a new introduction by Sam Leith, former literary editor of the Daily Telegraph and contributor to the Evening Standard, Guardian and Spectator.

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140068600
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clinging to the Wreckage written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this spirited memoir John Mortimer, an esteemed barrister as well as novelist, playwright, and journalist, relates all the paradoxes and pleasures of his double life. With wit and style, Mr. Mortimer takes you from his unusual childhood (his father, a blind barrister, insisted that his wife read the sordid details of his divorce briefs in public) to the dilemmas of his life as a barrister (one of his clients indignantly declared, "Your Mr. Rumpole could have gotten me out of this, why the hell can't you!"). Filled with laughter and a sense of the absurd, , Clinging to the Wreckage makes it clear why John Mortimer has been called Noel Coward, P. G. Wodehouse, and Evelyn Waugh rolled into one.

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014006768X
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Rumpole Omnibus written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1983-09-29 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rumpole of the Bailey -- The trials of Rumpole -- Rumpole's return.

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141925558
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rumpole Rests His Case written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rumpole Rests His Case - seven hilarious stories starring John Mortimer's unforgettable barrister The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness while he tiptoes precariously through the domestic territory of his wife, Hilda-She Who Must Be Obeyed! With his passion for poetry, and a nose equally sensitive to the whiff of wrongdoing and the bouquet of a Château Thames Embankment, the lovable and disheveled Rumpole "is at his rumpled best" (The New York Times). These seven wonderful Rumpole stories 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 : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 178529895X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rompole: the Penge Bungalow Murders and Other Stories written by John Mortimer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders: It is the fifties, and two war heroes have been shot dead. Defending the suspect is deemed hopeless, so the case is handed to a novice. But the novice's superiors didn't count on the tenacity and wit of the young and hungry Horace Rumpole, as he defends the accused alone and without a leader for the very first time. This two-part adaptation of the novel by John Mortimer also marks the beginning of Rumpole's life-long liason with Hilda ("She Who Must Be Obeyed"). Rumpole and the family pride: We rejoin Rumpole and Hilda in the late 1950s, when they have been married for a year or two. Hilda's cousin lives with her husband, the 17th Baron Sackbut, in Sackbut Castle on the Yorkshire Moors. Hilda and Rumpole are invited to the castle when a body is found in the grounds. Meanwhile, in London, Rumpole defends a tramp who has confessed to a triple-murder. Rumpole and the eternal triangle: When Rumpole and Hilda attend a concert performed by The Casterini Trio, Rumpole is surprised to be approached by Elizabeth Casterini, the trio's beautiful violinist. But then the Trio's cellist, Tom Randall, is murdered. Elizabeth's husband is arrested, and Rumpole agrees to defend him at the Old Bailey