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Horace Rumpole is a young "white wig," when he has his first chance to assist C. H. Wystan, his head of chambers, on a murder case. Idealistic and committed to providing an active defense of anyone accused of crime, Rumpole is appalled by Wystan's complete lack of interest in the case and by Wystan's attempts to get his client to plead guilty to a crime he insists he never committed. Rumpole's performance on a day when his... Read Full Review

Horace Rumpole's greatest triumph came a mere eighteen months after he was called to the bar, when he represented the defendant in the Penge Bungalow Murders, "alone and without a leader." In John Mortimer's "Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders," we learn the details of how a nervous and inexperienced barrister managed to pull off a completely unexpected legal victory. Unfortunately, success often has its price. At the... Read Full Review

July 2002 was the saddest month of all. Leo McKern -- the quintessential Rumpole -- had died after a long illness and was survived one day by Maurice Denham who played Rumpole on BBC radio. So it seems that the possibility of a revival of visual episodes of has declined to almost zero. Nonetheless, there was always the hope that Sir John Mortimer would pen the story that launched the whole series.. ..and, after two collections... Read Full Review

This is a wonderful book. I think it's the best in the Rumpole series. John Mortimer is the Shakespeare of courtroom dramas - head and shoulders above anyone else in the field. This particular installment not only contains drama, suspense and comedy, it's also a love story. Here we discover how Rumpole and She Who Must Be Obeyed `'fell in love'` so to speak and got married. In the face of overwhelming obstructionism,... Read Full Review

Horace Rumpole!!!! And it is a darn good thing for any defendant facing a criminal charge in London to have the rumpled, oft-scorned, and much condescended to Horace Rumpole take up your defense against all comers. John Mortimer's latest Rumpole story, Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders takes us back to the great barrister's first big case. The story is told looking back after a conversation in chambers convinces Rumpole... Read Full Review