Rumpole Rests His Case
by John Mortimer
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Author: John MortimerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-11-25
ISBN: 0142003476
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: Rumpole always wins his cases...... and our hearts
Summary: 5 Stars
I have asked myself how much I would have missed had I not encountered Horace Rumpole, John Mortimer's aging London barrister. The answer is quite a lot. The many moments of pure enjoyment felt while reading any of the Rumpole stories can only be treasured without attempting to fully describe them.
What a character!!! Witty, a treasure-trove of humor, ingenious in his solutions to his cases, the very opposite of a bore. And, absent the story-telling genius of Mortimer, a nostalgia-spouting old coot can be quite a bore........ which Rumpole definitely is not. His wife, "She Who Must Be Obeyed", as he calls her, adds to the picturesque nature of these stories, while the members of Rumpole's law chambers each add their bit of spice and humor to the plots.
The fascinating descriptions of the daily workings of the British system of justice also add to the enjoyment of reading these stories. Inevitably, one does ask oneself, does British justice work and serve better than American justice?
"Rumpole Rests His Case" is a collection of stories, each about a different case, but with the continuity of a series. It is similar to the many other Rumpole books of stories and each is a true gem of the genre.
May Rumpole continue to defend, never prosecute, cases at the Old Bailey for the enjoyment of the millions who read his adventures.
Ray
Summary of Rumpole Rests His Case
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 wrongdoing and the bouquet of a Château Thames Embankment, the lovable and disheveled Rumpole "is at his rumpled best" (The New York Times).Literary Books
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