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1 de ene. de 2001 · John Mortimer. Horace Rumpole, whom the nation has taken to its collective bosom, continues to deftly juggle the vagaries of law, the ambiguities of crime and the contradictions of the the human hearth in his death-defying performances on behalf of justice. Here he takes on the con-o-sewers of the art world, journeys deep into the throbbing ...
1 de ene. de 2001 · John Clifford Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and former practising barrister. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole stories and a trilogy of political novels, Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets, featuring Leslie Titmuss - a character as brilliant as Rumpole.
1 de ene. de 2001 · In RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY, John Mortimer has served up a veritable smorgasbord of short snappy tales that are the very best that British courtroom humour has to offer. Whether it's criminal trials in the old Bailey or civil trials in Chancery division, Horace Rumpole takes on all comers with a trademarked irreverent disdain for the sanctity of the law, the court, the judiciary and his learned ...
John Mortimer. Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC (* 21. April 1923 in London; † 16. Januar 2009 in Turville Heath, nahe Henley-on-Thames [1]) war ein britischer Anwalt ( Barrister) und Schriftsteller .
This site is a map of stories by John Mortimer in the Rumpole of the Bailey series of stories and presented in the order in which they appeared. A cursory glance at lists on the internet might suggest that the publication of the Rumpole tales is a simple sequence, but this is far from the truth. Some stories were issued in several different ...
17 de ene. de 2009 · John Mortimer, barrister, author, playwright and creator of Horace Rumpole, the cunning defender of the British criminal classes, died on Friday at his home in Oxfordshire, England. He was 85.
1 de ene. de 2001 · John Mortimer published his first book starring Rumpole, the London defense lawyer, at age 55, drawing on his own legal career as well as that of his father. This launched the popular Rumpole franchise which ran to nearly two dozen books, with Mortimer writing the last shortly before his death at age 85.
