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The Best of Rumpole: Chosen By the Author (Rumpole of the Bailey)
The Best of Rumpole Chosen By the Author - Rumpole of the Bailey
Author: John Mortimer
Rumpole is everyone's favorite defense barrister: he is a fearless tamer of judges who is kept in order only by She Who Must Be Obeyed. A rumbustious defender of the faith, Rumpole is known, not surprisingly, as something of a character. His exploits at the Old Bailey - and elsewhere - are an unsurpassable blend of eloquence, wit, cynicism, ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780140176841
ISBN-10: 0140176845
Publication Date: 11/1/1994
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
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If you loved the PBS series with Leo McKern, you will enjoy these stories just as much. Rumpole is an old darling.
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The corpulent "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" joins a winning cast--which includes his splendid wife, Hilda, his philandering colleague, Claude Erskine-Brown, and his old enemy, the pompous and biased Judge Bullingham--in this marvelous collection of the bluff barrister's finest moments.


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