
Rumpole for the Defense
Author: John Mortimer
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Unabridged: 6 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 02/23/2012
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Author: John Mortimer
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Unabridged: 6 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 02/23/2012
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
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.
Probably read this decades ago but any outing of the Old Bailey hack is well worth revisiting. Long Live Horace Rumpole! Glorious.......more
Rumpole is an absolutely guaranteed mood elevator, whichever of the books you pick up. Had a bad day? Rumpole. Missed the bus? Rumpole. Country heading for an economic catastrophe the like of which is unknown in generations? Rumpole, Rumpole, Rumpole. He's almost the literary equivalent of push-butto......more
Lost weekends (lost to binge TV show-viewing on Netflix) is not a new phenomena. I've been tearing through the Rumpole of the Bailey books at a rapid rate, too. Perhaps it was due to my youth when I watched the TV shows, but the books seem to have more existential pathos than the TV shows. The books......more
This is my new binge-reading. We're back to the short story format, but otherwise the books are so similar that it's difficult to contribute some exciting new observation to each one, it would be like trying to rate each Hershey Bar you eat, rather than Hershey Bars in general. I'll say that for thi......more