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New to Penguin Modern Classics, the very first selection of stories featuring the irrepressible Rumpole.

About the Author

Sir John Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and barrister. The first book featuring his most famous character, Horace Rumpole, was published by Penguin in 1980, and Mortimer went on to publish a dozen collections of Rumpole stories as well as a handful of novels, culminating in 2007 in RUMPOLE MISBEHAVES. He was knighted in 1998 for his services to the arts and died in January 2009.

Reviews

I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole.
*Observer*

Rumpole is worthy to join the great gallery of English oddballs ranging from Pickwick to Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves and Bertie Wooster.
*Sunday Times*