Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole

Mortimer, John

ISBN 10: 067002306X / ISBN 13: 9780670023066

Published by Viking, New York, 2011

About this Item

Cloth backed boards. Collects fourteen stories plus the fragment of a previously unpublished one. A fine copy in fine dustjacket with a tiny crease to the spine panel.; Octavo.

Seller Inventory # 24113

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole
• Publisher: Viking, New York
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067002306X
• ISBN 13: 9780670023066
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mysteries and Thrillers

About this title

Synopsis

A wonderful collection, starring the world's most beloved barrister, including a fragment of a new Rumpole story.

John Mortimer died in 2009, but will never be forgotten. While still a practicing barrister, Mortimer took up the pen, and the rest is literary history. His stories featuring the cigar-chomping, cheap- winetippling Rumpole and his wife, Hilda (aka "She Who Must Be Obeyed"), have justly earned their place in the pantheon of mystery fiction legends. The stories became a very successful PBS television series starring Leo McKern as Rumpole.

Forever Rumpole brings together fourteen of Rumpole's most entertaining adventures, together with a fragment of a new story. Rumpole is never less than delightful and this new collection is a fitting tribute to an indelible character and his remarkable creator.

About the Author

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 the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.