John Mortimer: The Collected Stories of Rumpole (Penguin Modern Classics) [2013] paperback Condition:New Whatever happens

Whatever happens

but instead goes ashore

detached from 'all the good ones are gone

We forget the loves and the betrayals alike

In the summer's final twist

John Mortimer: The Collected Stories of Rumpole (Penguin Modern Classics) [2013] paperback Condition:New Whatever happensHorace Rumpole witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical is one of fiction's best loved barristers at law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome She Who Must Be Obeyed. These