Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders Author:John Mortimer It might have seemed that the PRIMROSE PATH was Rumpole's final investigation, but the books have always made mention of the Penge Bungalow murder case that Rumpole made his name with, as an in-joke for aficionados. JM now proposes to tell the history of the case, told by Rumpole in flashbacks to the 1950s.