The Trials of Rumpole

John Mortimer

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Penguin
02 July 2021

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories; Humour

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Another collection of stories about the irrepressible barrister Horace Rumple comes to Penguin Modern Classics

Horace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from Pommeroy's wine bar, is back for further misadventures. Amid an unfortunate and temporary downturn in London crime, the Old Bailey hack sits in Chambers (he never writes at home for fear of She Who Must Be Obeyed) and picks up his pen to recount six classic tales of his recent trials. Here he deals with, among others, a clergyman on a shoplifting rampage, a backstage theatrical murder, a villain with unfortunate sartorial taste and, worst of all, the possibility that he may have to hang up his wig and retire.

By: John Mortimer
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 157g
ISBN: 9780241474433
ISBN 10: 0241474434
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 02 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sir John Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and barrister. The first book featuring his most famous character, Horace Rumpole, was published by Penguin in 1980, and Mortimer went on to publish a dozen collections of Rumpole stories as well as a handful of novels, culminating in 2007 in Rumpole Misbehaves. He was knighted in 1998 for his services to the arts and died in January 2009.