Passion, inspiration, and intrigue surround the Goulds of St. Simons Island as Eugenia Price's masterful St. Simons Trilogy continues with Deborah, Horace Gould's child bride, guarding his besieged plantation during the Yankee invasion.
The complete stories from the last 3 Rumpole volumes ("Angel Of Death", A La Carte" and Age Of Miracles") which were published respectively in 1995, 1990 and 1988. "I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole" - Clive James.
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.
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 ...
The story of Melvin Purvis, the once-iconic G-man and public hero destroyed not by villains but by the jealousy of his boss, J Edgar Hoover By the end of 1934 Melvin Purvis was, after President Roosevelt, the most famous man in America. Just thirty-one years old, he presided over the FBI's remarkable sweep of the great Public Enemies of the ...
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.
Both long-term fans of the Rumpole of the Bailey series as well as first-time readers will enjoy diving into this one, the long-awaited and oft-alluded to story of Horace Rumpole's first big case as a barrister in the 1950s. The young lawyer, only recently graduated from Oxford, is faced with quite a challenge: the defense of Simon Jerold, who's ...
Horace (65-8 BC) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European literature is unparalleled. Horace's Odes and Epodes constitute a body of Latin poetry equalled only by Virgil's, astonishing us with leaps of sense and rich modulation, masterly metaphor, and exquisite subtlety. ...
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 ...
The Mayo brothers, knowing the importance of sharing, enter a career in which they can share their knowledge, skills, and money with sick people and other doctors.
One of President Lyndon Johnson's most trusted advisors and speechwriters, Horace Busby, shares his memoirs of his time with the president, including such historically significant events as the assassination of Kennedy and Johnson's 1968 speech in which he announced he would not seek another term.
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.
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.
This collection of seven new stories finds Rumpole taking on devil worshippers, fending off a mysterious woman who wants him to defend her husband for a murder not yet committed, and defending himself before the Bar Council when his courtroom tactics finally go too far.
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.
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.
In the years following World War II, images of comradeship, particularly of men being physically close, largely disappeared from the public record. But, as these stunning photographs attest, ordinary American men in the extraordinary circumstances of World War II were affectionate, winsome, and playful - disarmingly innocent in a time of ...
A translation of Horace's influential odes by David Ferry, whose 1993 translation of "Gilgamesh" was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Horace Silver is one of the last giants remaining from the incredible flowering and creative extension of bebop music that became known as 'hard bop' in the 1950s. This freewheeling autobiography of the great composer, pianist, and band leader takes us from his childhood in Norwalk, Connecticut, through his rise to fame as a musician in New York, ...
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.
From his arrival in New York City, in 1831, as a young journalist from New Hampshire to his death in 1872 after losing the presidential election to General Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley (b. 1811) was a quintessential New Yorker. He thrived on the city's ceaseless energy, with his New York Tribune at the forefront of a national revolution in ...
Six new tales about the Wordsworth-loving, cigar-smoking, irrepressible pillar of the British legal system, Horace Rumpole; and for the very first time, Hilda, "she who must be obeyed", tells a story all of her own.
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