Rumpole's Last Case

John Mortimer's Rumpole books are consistently excellent. For me, the only decision in rating them is whether to give each volume five stars or just four. This one gets a five. The seven stories have excellent plots and are filled with eccentric, but realistic characters. And I hope that it's not to......more

Another winner. There's a certain sameness to many of the stories, although it's currently a comforting sameness, I think, but I can see (given the sheer number of volumes yet to come) that it could easily slip into annoying sameness (is Claude going to attempt to romance every female associate? I s......more

Another bunch of stories about that inimitable barrister, Horace Rumpole. In "Rumpole and the Official Secret" he defends a middle-aged eccentric clerical worker from charges that she leaked official secrets, to wit, the budget in her department for "biscuits" aka cookies. And in "Rumpole's Last Cas......more

Would have been a 5 but the narrator (it was audible) was only so-so. Not gravely enough. Leo McKearn has ruined me for all other Rumpoles.......more

This, you see, is the trouble with Rumpole audiobooks. Once you start, they become an addictive substance, like audio crack. The further into Rumpole you go, the more it begins to remind you of something. Rumpole is a flawed, shallow, selfish creature, who nonetheless, compared to most of the other p......more