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The Third Rumpole Omnibus

(1997)
(A book in the Rumpole series)
An omnibus of novels by

 
 
This compilation of witty mysteries captures John MortimerÆs deft writing. Rumpole a la Carte, a delightful discourse on the British legal system, takes us from a restaurant battle over RumpoleÆs mashed spuds to a confrontation with a detective-novelist on a ship. The zany yarns of Rumpole on Trial are ingenious: devil worshippers, Juvenile Court, a mysterious seductress searching for a barrister to defend her husband for a murder not yet committed, and courtroom strategies a little too lunatic force Rumpole to face the Disciplinary Committee of the Bar Council. Rumpole and the Angel of Death offers a comic commentary on cruelty to animals, human rights, and the fallibility of the justice

Genre: Mystery

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