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1	Rumpole Misbehaves more books like this by John Mortimer add to wishlist Mortimer's beloved Rumpole is back to solve a new and peculiar mystery. When the curmudgeonly barrister is called upon to defend a Timson child cited for playing soccer on a posh street, he tries to get to the bottom of the New Labour party's ridiculous new Anti-Social Behavior Orders. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.97! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist This full-length Rumpole novel relates the oft-mentioned but never revealed story of Rumpole's first case, the Penge Bungalow affair. This trial and its outcome put Rumpole on the map and shaped him into the cantankerous defender of justice readers love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Second Rumpole Omnibus: Rumpole for the Defence/Rumpole and the Golden Thread/Rumpole's Last Case more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist Horace Rumpole turns down yet another invitation to exchange the joys and sorrows of life as an Old Bailey hack for the delights of the sunshine state, where Senior Citizens loll on beaches and the sarcastic tones of the Mad Bull (Judge Roger Bullingham) are heard no more. He settles instead for the beaded bubbles of Chateau Pommeroy's ordinary ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The First Rumpole Omnibus: Rumpole of the Bailey/The Trials of Rumpole/Rumpole's Return more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Paradise postponed more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist The "Longman Study Texts" are designed to cover a wide range of classics and modern writers and the full range of literary genres. They are geared to both examination and coursework requirements at GCSE level with many texts for A level study, and they aim to avoid examination short cuts such as plot summaries or potted character sketches. This ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Summer's lease more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist A woman takes her husband and children to the Italian home of another English family accompanied by her eccentric father. A sense of foreboding hangs over the holiday from the start as the house, as well as its absentee owners, exert their presence. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Rumpole rests his case more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist Horace Rumpole, one of the finest barristers ever to defend a client, weaves his way elegantly among the intricacies of the courtroom and the human heart, only to find that advancing years catch up with even the most indomitable spirit. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Rumpole and the Reign of Terror more books like this by John Mortimer add to wishlist While defending a mind-numbingly dull theft charge, Rumpole finds that the new terrorist laws have hamstrung his beloved courts. Meanwhile, a Pakistani doctor has been imprisoned without charge or trial under suspicion of aiding al-Qaeda in its plans for a terrorist attack. With the doctors wife begging him to help her husband, the Great Defender ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Great Ideas Today more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler (Editor), John Van Doren (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $66.93! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Titmuss Regained more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist Leslie Titmuss is the anti-hero of "Paradise Postponed", portrayed on screen by David Threlfall. "Titmuss Regained" continues to recount the rise of Leslie, now married to a second, deeply unpleasant wife. Another opportunity for John Mortimer to chronicle the ways of our present world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Rumpole à la carte more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Rumpole of the Bailey more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist A collection of stories featuring Rumpole of the Bailey, including "Rumpole and the Younger Generation", "Rumpole and the Alternative Society", "Rumpole and the Honourable Member", "Rumpole and the Married Lady, "Rumpole and the Learned Friends" and "Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Sound of Trumpets more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist This final volume in the trilogy that began with "Paradise Postponed" and "Titmuss Regained", sees the dawn of New Labour in the Hartscombe constituency. The embittered Lord Titmuss fondly remembers his days with Thatcher, and sees in the New Labour candidate the perfect instrument for revenge. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.37! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life more books like this by John Mortimer add to wishlist The creator of the character of Rumpole, a playwright, the son who immortalized a parent in "A Voyage Round My Father", this book is the autobiography of John Mortimer. This book won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Rumpole and the Primrose Path more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist In six new stories, Horace Rumpole deftly parries everything from the admonitions of his wife, Hilda, to the vagaries of his legal colleagues and their new director of marketing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Rumpole on Trial more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist Rumpole goes too far and finds himself threatened with the simplicity of home life. Here too are the terrible Timsons, Rumpole's bread-and-butter clients, this time defending themselves against a charge of devil-worship. This is dramatized in a Thames Television series starring Leo McKern. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.21! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Summer of a Dormouse: Another Part of Life more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist This memoir chronicles the experiences of the celebrated British writer in his old age.The tone is melancholic as he shares the moving account of his wife's funeral and his bouts with incontinence, his eventual blindness, and the ever-present dread of Alzheimer's. However, much of the book hits lighter notes, as he mingles with the celebrity ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.93! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Trials of Rumpole more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist Horace Rumpole - a man who never prosecutes, whose fame rests on his knowledge, whose court scenes are proverbial and whose home is ruled by Mrs Rumpole is back in this collection of stories. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The summer of a dormouse more books like this by John Mortimer (Read by) add to wishlist One day John Mortimer is checking a reference in his "Complete Shakespeare" when the page falls open in the middle of "Henry VI, Part II" and his eye catches hold of two lines: "This evil here shall be my substitute; For that John Mortimer which now is dead..." Though the room goes suddenly cold, Shakespeare's acter is of course another person in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.31! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Rumpoles Last Case more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist Unbowed by nearly 50 years knocking around the hollowed courts of justice, the icy winds blowing from "she who must be obeyed", an overdraft bursting at the seams and overindulgence in Fleet Street, Horace Rumpole features in these seven stories about life in court. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.45! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Rumpole and the Golden Thread more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist This collection includes "Rumpole and the Genuine Article", "Rumpole and the Golden Thread", "Rumpole and the Old Boy Net", "Rumpole and the Female of the Species", "Rumpole and the Sporting Life" and "Rumpole and the Last Resort". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00!
22 view cover	Quite Honestly more books like this by John Mortimer add to wishlist Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. Granted it's a little embarrassing, her father being the Bishop of Aldershot, but she's got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences from Manchester University and the offer of a job in advertising. With all that, she felt she should pay back her debt to society' and do a little good in the world ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Rumpole's Return more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist Horace Rumpole is supposed to be enjoying well-earned retirement busking soggily in the Florida sun beside "she who must be obeyed", learning to rap with strangers. But then he decides to return to the bar. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Rumpole and the Angel of Death more books like this by John Mortimer add to wishlist In the title story of this collection Rumpole is defending a pro-euthanasia doctor on a charge of murdering his old colleague Chippy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $47.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Where There's a Will: Thoughts on the Good Life more books like this by John Clifford Mortimer add to wishlist John Mortimer, creator of RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY, writes from the eminence of his 81 years about 32 of his pet topics, which include the joys of drink, the necessity of vulgarity, Byron in Greece, the silliness (and dangers) of political correctness, and the virtues of outdoor sex. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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