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  Rumpole of the Bailey

  by John Mortimer, John Clifford Mortimer

  Horace Rumpole is the lovable, irreverent, claret-swigging, poetry-spouting criminal lawyer immortalized on TV. By the author of "Rumpole and the Golden Thread" and "In Character".
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  The First Rumpole Omnibus (Rumpole)

  by John Mortimer, John Clifford Mortimer

  Who rose to enduring fame on Blood and Typewriters, told the pregnant Portia of the Chambers it would come out in the end, advised Guthrie Featherstone, Q.C. to adopt a more judicial attitude, returned in the tender gloaming of each evening - via Pommeroy's and a glass of Chateau Fleet Street - to she who must be obeyed? The answer is Horace Rumpole whose legal triumphs, plundering sorties into the 'Oxford Book of... (more)
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  Silks

  by Dick Francis

  “Julian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family including a charge of attempted murder. You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society.” When defense lawyer Geoffrey Mason hears the judge’s ruling at London’s Old Bailey, he quietly hopes that a substantial sentence will be handed down to... (more)
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  A Rumpole Christmas: Stories

  by John Mortimer

  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 “RumpoleÂ’s Slimmed Down Christmas,” he goes to a... (more)
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  Rumpole Rests His Case

  by John Mortimer

  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 ... (more)
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  The Big Idea

  by Antony Archdeacon

  John Penry-Hudson is a middle-aged and very successful Q.C. He has been expecting to be made a High Court Judge, but the invitation is taking a long time to arrive, and he feels frustrated. Also, his marriage has lost its magic, and his wife, Phyllis, spends more and more time staying with her elderly mother. One day she announces casually that she would like to spend three months. John resents this, although he... (more)
• The Law Society's Directory of Solicitors and Barristers 2006-2007The Law Society

  

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  The Law Society's Directory of Solicitors and Barristers 2006-2007

  by The Law Society

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  The Third Rumpole Omnibus (Rumpole)

  by John Mortimer, John Clifford Mortimer

  This compilation of witty mysteries captures John Mortimer's deft writing. Rumpole la Carte, a delightful discourse on the British legal system, takes us from a restaurant battle over Rumpole's mashed spuds to a confrontation with a detective-novelist on a ship. The zany yarns of Rumpole on Trial are ingenious: devil worshippers, Juvenile Court, a mysterious seductress searching for a barrister to defend her... (more)
• Regina v. RumpoleJOHN MORTIMER

  

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  Regina v. Rumpole

  by John Mortimer, John Clifford Mortimer

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  Rumpole & the Man of God

  by John Clifford Mortimer

  Is the vicar a thief? It doesn't matter, the facts can't be used. Luckily, Rumpole's got other ways to sway a jury. Meanwhile, an old friend's fiancee is looking suspiciously familiar. But from where? Once more, John Mortimer lets Rumpole maintain his hilariously cynical commentary throughout ceaseless smoking, drinking and uncommon lawyering.
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  Bewigged And Bewildered: Pupillage And a Career at the Bar

  by Adam Kramer

  Misunderstandings and jargon prevent many from seriously considering a career as a barrister in the belief that such a career is not for them or that they are not for it. Others know that they might want to become barristers but not how to go about it, or just want to know more about this somewhat mysterious profession. This book (by a barrister who was formerly a university law lecturer) clearly but informally... (more)
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  Rumpole and the Age of Miracles

  by John Mortimer, John Clifford Mortimer

  The lovable, irreverent, claret-swigging, Wordsworth-spouting criminal lawyer returns to the fray to fight new battles against injustice in this humorous and baffling tie-in to the series to air December 7 through January 11. (Movie/TV Tie-In)
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  Rumpole and the Angel of Death

  by John Mortimer, John Clifford Mortimer

  A collection of six mystery tales featuring Horace Rumpole follows the irrepressible barrister as he takes on the dark forces of evil and injustice in the British legal system. Reprint.
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  Rumpole a la Carte (Rumpole)

  by John Mortimer, John Clifford 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!"