Download or read book Rumpole s Last Case Floor Display written by John Mortimer and published by . This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rumpole Rests His Case written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness while he tiptoes precariously through the domestic territory of his wife, Hilda-She Who Must Be Obeyed! With his passion for poetry, and a nose equally sensitive to the whiff of wrongdoing and the bouquet of a Château Thames Embankment, the lovable and disheveled Rumpole "is at his rumpled best" (The New York Times).
Download or read book Rumpole of the Bailey written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series 1:Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) is a down-at-heel yet brilliant barrister. Fond of quoting Wordsworth, he comes to the defence of shoplifting vicars, overly amorous teachers and many others who pass through the doors of the Old Bailey. Series 2:In this second series, Rumpole successfully clears a vicar of a shoplifting charge, proves a case of mistaken identity and defends a known Fascist on a charge under the Race Relations Act. Series 3:The third series sees Rumpole travel to the new African state of Neranga to defend the Minister for Home Affairs who has been charged with the murder of a high ranking Bishop. Back in the UK, he defends a client from a brother who is out to ruin him; outwits his old adversary, Judge Bullingham and recoups outstanding debts with the help of She Who Must Be Obeyed. All whilst apparently dead! Series 4:In this fourth series, Rumpole has such an argument with She who must be obeyed that he walks out. He defends an eccentric spinster accused of being a government whistle-blower and after an army sergeant is found stabbed to death wearing a womans dress, Rumpole is assigned to defend the accused murderer. And could it be Rumpoles last case when he makes exotic horse racing bet which will allow him to retire if he wins. Series 5:In this series, Horace Rumpoles clerk, Henry, is thinking of running off to Australia whilst She Who Must Be Obeyed decides its time for her to begin her own career in the legal profession. Rumpole defends his clergyman nephew in anecclesiastical court, against charges of adultery -of which the bishop takes a dim view. Seires 6:In this series, Rumpole agrees to defend an elitist restauranteur whom he dislikes when a mouse jumps out from one of the gourmet meals. All is not well at home either as She Who Must Be Obeyed goes on strike in the kitchen leaving the hungry barrister to his own devices for his dinners. Series 7:The 7th and final series of the multi award winning Rumpole of The Bailey. Rumpole is called to defend a family who is charged of being involved with devil worship and he finds himself in the unusual position of defending a police officer on a charge of falsifying a confession. Rumpole surprises She Who Must Be Obeyed with tickets for the Scales of Justice Ball and delights her when he leads her onto the dance floor. In the final episode Rumpole is charged with contempt of court and faces disbarment. All he has to do is apologise. But as always with Rumpole, its never going to be easy.
Download or read book Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace Rumpole - cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients - often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. Now, for the first time, the sensational story of the Penge Bungalow Murders case is told in full: how, shortly after the war, Rumpole took on the seemingly impossible task of defending young Simon Jerold, accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a German officer's gun. And how the inexperienced young brief was left alone to pursue the path of justice, in a case that was to echo through the Bailey for years to come.
Download or read book Rumpole of the Bailey written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series 1:Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) is a down-at-heel yet brilliant barrister. Fond of quoting Wordsworth, he comes to the defence of shoplifting vicars, overly amorous teachers and many others who pass through the doors of the Old Bailey. Series 2:In this second series, Rumpole successfully clears a vicar of a shoplifting charge, proves a case of mistaken identity and defends a known Fascist on a charge under the Race Relations Act. Series 3:The third series sees Rumpole travel to the new African state of Neranga to defend the Minister for Home Affairs who has been charged with the murder of a high ranking Bishop. Back in the UK, he defends a client from a brother who is out to ruin him; outwits his old adversary, Judge Bullingham and recoups outstanding debts with the help of She Who Must Be Obeyed. All whilst apparently dead! Series 4:In this fourth series, Rumpole has such an argument with She who must be obeyed that he walks out. He defends an eccentric spinster accused of being a government whistle-blower and after an army sergeant is found stabbed to death wearing a womans dress, Rumpole is assigned to defend the accused murderer. And could it be Rumpoles last case when he makes exotic horse racing bet which will allow him to retire if he wins. Series 5:In this series, Horace Rumpoles clerk, Henry, is thinking of running off to Australia whilst She Who Must Be Obeyed decides its time for her to begin her own career in the legal profession. Rumpole defends his clergyman nephew in anecclesiastical court, against charges of adultery -of which the bishop takes a dim view. Seires 6:In this series, Rumpole agrees to defend an elitist restauranteur whom he dislikes when a mouse jumps out from one of the gourmet meals. All is not well at home either as She Who Must Be Obeyed goes on strike in the kitchen leaving the hungry barrister to his own devices for his dinners. Series 7:The 7th and final series of the multi award winning Rumpole of The Bailey. Rumpole is called to defend a family who is charged of being involved with devil worship and he finds himself in the unusual position of defending a police officer on a charge of falsifying a confession. Rumpole surprises She Who Must Be Obeyed with tickets for the Scales of Justice Ball and delights her when he leads her onto the dance floor. In the final episode Rumpole is charged with contempt of court and faces disbarment. All he has to do is apologise. But as always with Rumpole, its never going to be easy.
Download or read book Forever Rumpole written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Mortimer—novelist, playwright, memoirist, and the author of more than eighty Rumpole short stories—will never be forgotten. While still a practicing barrister, Mortimer took up the pen, and the rest is literary history. His stories featuring the cigar-chomping, cheap-wine-tippling Rumpole and his wife, Hilda (aka "She Who Must Be Obeyed"), have justly earned their place in the pantheon of mystery fiction legends, becoming the basis for the very successful television series Rumpole of the Bailey. Bringing fourteen of Rumpole's most entertaining adventures (seven of which were collected in The Best of Rumpole) together with a fragment of a new story, Forever Rumpole proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Rumpole is never less than delightful.
Download or read book Rumpole and the Reign of Terror written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Mortimer's bestselling barrister is back, in his most timely case yet Just in case Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders gave fans the impression that the Great Defender was resting on his laurels, his new case sends him at full sail into our panicky new world. Rumpole is asked to defend a Pakistani doctor who has been imprisoned without charge or trial on suspicion of aiding Al Qaeda. Meanwhile, on the home front, She Who Must Be Obeyed is threatening to share her intimate view of her husband in a tell-all memoir. The result is Rumpole at his most ironic and indomitable, and John Mortimer at his most entertaining.
Download or read book People of Today written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Shakespeare Wars written by Ron Rosenbaum and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Ron Rosenbaum] is one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.” –David Remnick In The Shakespeare Wars, Ron Rosenbaum gives readers an unforgettable way of rethinking the greatest works of the human imagination. As he did in his groundbreaking Explaining Hitler, he shakes up much that we thought we understood about a vital subject and renews our sense of excitement and urgency. He gives us a Shakespeare book like no other. Rather than raking over worn-out fragments of biography, Rosenbaum focuses on cutting-edge controversies about the true source of Shakespeare’s enchantment and illumination–the astonishing language itself. How best to unlock the secrets of its spell? With quicksilver wit and provocative insight, Rosenbaum takes readers into the midst of fierce battles among the most brilliant Shakespearean scholars and directors over just how to delve deeper into the Shakespearean experience–deeper into the mind of Shakespeare. Was Shakespeare the one-draft wonder of Shakespeare in Love? Or was he rather–as an embattled faction of textual scholars now argues–a different kind of writer entirely: a conscientious reviser of his greatest plays? Must we then revise our way of reading, staging, and interpreting such works as Hamlet and King Lear? Rosenbaum pursues key partisans in these debates from the high tables of Oxford to a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop in a strip mall in the Deep South. He makes ostensibly arcane textual scholarship intensely seductive–and sometimes even explicitly sexual. At an academic “Pleasure Seminar” in Bermuda, for instance, he examines one scholar’s quest to find an orgasm in Romeo and Juliet. Rosenbaum shows us great directors as Shakespearean scholars in their own right: We hear Peter Brook–perhaps the most influential Shakespearean director of the past century–disclose his quest for a “secret play” hidden within the Bard’s comedies and dramas. We listen to Sir Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, as he launches into an impassioned, table-pounding fury while discussing how the means of unleashing the full intensity of Shakespeare’s language has been lost–and how to restore it. Rosenbaum’s hilarious inside account of “the Great Shakespeare ‘Funeral Elegy’ Fiasco,” a man-versus-computer clash, illustrates the iconic struggle to define what is and isn’t “Shakespearean.” And he demonstrates the way Shakespearean scholars such as Harold Bloom can become great Shakespearean characters in their own right. The Shakespeare Wars offers a thrilling opportunity to engage with Shakespeare’s work at its deepest levels. Like Explaining Hitler, this book is destined to revolutionize the way we think about one of the overwhelming obsessions of our time.
Download or read book The Third Rumpole Omnibus written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of witty mysteries captures John Mortimer's deft writing. Rumpole a la Carte, a delightful discourse on the British legal system, takes us from a restaurant battle over Rumpole's mashed spuds to a confrontation with a detective-novelist on a ship. The zany yarns of Rumpole on Trial are ingenious: devil worshippers, Juvenile Court, a mysterious seductress searching for a barrister to defend her husband for a murder not yet committed, and courtroom strategies a little too lunatic force Rumpole to face the Disciplinary Committee of the Bar Council. Rumpole and the Angel of Death offers a comic commentary on cruelty to animals, human rights, and the fallibility of the justice system. The Third Rumpole Omnibus promises insight and laughter from the barrister who's "as much a detective as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot" (The Boston Sunday Globe).
Download or read book The Collected Stories of Rumpole written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace 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 collected stories, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time, are a definitive introduction to one of the wisest and wittiest characters in British comic writing and a reminder of what justice should really be about. With a new introduction by Sam Leith, former literary editor of the Daily Telegraph and contributor to the Evening Standard, Guardian and Spectator.
Download or read book The Best of Rumpole written by John Mortimer and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of stories featuring the humorous and courageous London barrister as he triumphs over the forces of prejudice and meanness.
Download or read book The Judas Window written by Carter Dickson and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Captive s Quest for Freedom written by R. J. M. Blackett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.
Download or read book The Aladdin Trial written by Abi Silver and published by Eye & Lightning Books. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new Burton and Lamb legal thriller A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB PICK 'An intense and compelling legal drama – quite wonderful' Geoffrey Wansell When an elderly artist plunges one hundred feet to her death at a London hospital, the police sense foul play The hospital cleaner, a Syrian refugee, is arrested for her murder. He protests his innocence, but why has he given the woman the story of Aladdin to read, and why does he shake uncontrollably in times of stress? In a spellbinding courtroom confrontation in which they once more grapple with all-too-possible developments in artificial intelligence, they uncover not only the cleaner's secrets, but also those of the artist's family, her lawyer and the hospital. A new Burton and Lamb legal thriller with an AI twist from the author of the acclaimed The Pinocchio Brief.
Download or read book A New Omnibus of Crime written by Tony Hillerman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Three-quarters of a century ago, Dorothy L. Sayers compiled the classic anthology The Omnibus of Crime, a definitive collection of short fiction that brought together crime and mystery works from the Apocryphal Scriptures to whodunits from the 1920s. Now, reflecting the explosive developments in the genre, Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of that book's publication with A New Omnibus of Crime. Like Sayers's volume, this new book is envisioned as a vehicle carrying stories the editors think represent the best in crime and mystery writing in our time. Selections also reflect the tastes of Contributing Editors Sue Grafton and Jeffery Deaver, both of whom have stories in this volume."--BOOK JACKET.
