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Oct 30, 2007 | ISBN 9780143112587 Buy
Oct 30, 2007 | ISBN 9781440679254 Buy
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Oct 30, 2007 | ISBN 9780143112587
Oct 30, 2007 | ISBN 9781440679254
John Mortimer’s bestselling barrister is back, in his most timely case yet Just in case Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders gave fans the impression that the Great Defender was resting on his laurels, his new case sends him at full sail into our panicky new world. Rumpole is asked to defend a Pakistani doctor who has been imprisoned without charge or trial on suspicion of aiding Al Qaeda. Meanwhile, on the home front, She Who Must Be Obeyed is threatening to share her intimate view of her husband in a tell-all memoir. The result is Rumpole at his most ironic and indomitable, and John Mortimer at his most entertaining.
John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and… More about John Mortimer
“Mortimer delivers another first class mystery. (A)” –Entertainment Weekly “As ever, Mortimer proves himself master of the bon mot, cutting aside, and glorious run-on sentence. . . . Another delightfully entertaining and thought-provoking novel.” –The Boston Globe
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