Rumpole a La Carte Sir John Mortimer

Name: Rumpole a la Carte By Sir John Mortimer
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Rumpole a La Carte by Sir John Mortimer

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Summary

A collection of six tales all featuring Horace Rumpole. Characters such as She Who Must Be Obeyed, and the philandering Claude Erskine-Brown are back as Rumpole visits a snooty restaurant, where he enagages in a battle over mashed spuds and takes the unaccustomed role of prosecutor.

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Rumpole a La Carte by Sir John Mortimer

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!"

About Sir John Mortimer

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.

Additional information

Sku

GOR004725698

ISBN 13

9780140156096

ISBN 10

0140156097

Title

Rumpole a La Carte by Sir John Mortimer

Author

Sir John Mortimer

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

1991-12-01

Number of pages

256

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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