Rumpole and the Angel of Death

Name: Rumpole and the Angel of Death
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: John Mortimer
ISBN: 9781455161430

Author: John Mortimer

Series: The Rumpole Series

Narrator: Frederick Davidson;Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 02/14/2014

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Traditional British

Synopsis

Horace Rumpole, the comic, courageous, and corpulent great defender of muddled and sinful humanity, is joined by a winning cast of villains and victims in this collection of six tales in which wry humor and sparkling wit deftly send up the British legal system. In Rumpole and the Angel of Death, our hero achieves new, resounding triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness. One adventure involves Rumpole in the world of hunters and the hunted, animal rights and human wrongs, while in another he finds that international justice is as fallible as the domestic variety. And for the first time, Hilda, She Who Must Be Obeyed, tells a story all her own.

About John Mortimer

John Mortimer (1923–2009) was a playwright, novelist, and barrister. He wrote many radio, film, and television scripts, including the British television series Rumpole of the Bailey, and won the British Academy Writer of the Year Award in 1979. He retired from the bar in 1984 and was knighted in 1998.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Janette

My mom gave me this book. I wasn't sure how I would like it (mom and I don't always have the same taste in books) but I was pleasantly surprised. I loved the quirky main character. Seriously, if you had told me that I would want to live through the story from the point of view of a stodgy old guy, I......more

Goodreads review by Alison

"Rumpole and the Angel of Death" is a collection of 6 stories featuring the late John Mortimer’s immortal creation, Horace Rumpole. I don’t know if these were previously published, for example in magazines, or if they were original to this volume printed in 1995, but I do know that Rumpole is best r......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

--a crotchety old barrister pleads for the defense, which is all he knows how to do. I listened to Rumpole way back in middle school, then forgot about him entirely until just this month. I'm going to have to go back to the others, but these more recent stories were especially fun. I get to see what......more

Goodreads review by Michael

Always a great pleasure......more