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  • A Rumpole Christmas

    Stories

    by John Mortimer ...
    The first ever collection of Rumpole Christmas stories? just in time for the holidaysA Rumpole Christmas is a collection of five holiday stories?never before published in book form? depicting the Old Bailey Hack at his lovable best. In ?Rumpole and Father Christmas,? the English barrister encounters a familiar-looking Santa who he thinks is a thief. In ?Rumpole?s Slimmed Down Christmas,? he goes ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • John Mortimer: Plays One

    A Voyage Round My Father; Collaborators; The Dock Brief; Lunch Hour; What Shall We Tell Caroline?

    by Sir John Mortimer ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the playsA Voyage Around My Father, The Collaborators, The Dock Brief, Lunch Hour, and What Shall We Tell Caroline?An unsuccessful barrister and even more unsuccessful murderer are the subject of Mortimer’s first play, The Dock Brief. This was followed by What Shall We Tell Caroline? and then Lunch Hour, another short play, about love and lies in the lunch-hour. The Collaborators covers ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Forever Rumpole

    The Best of the Rumpole Stories

    by John Mortimer, Ann Mallalieu ...
    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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Rumpole and the Primrose Path

    by John Mortimer ...
    With Rumpole Rests His Case, legions of fans welcomed back the curmudgeonly London barrister they had loved for years?and they are eager for more. The six new stories in Rumpole and the Primrose Path find Horace Rumpole?despite a heart attack that left him at death?s door in the previous volume?deftly parrying everything from the admonitions of his wife, Hilda, to the vagaries of his legal ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Best of "The Strand Magazine"

    25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction

    by Andrew F. Gulli, Lamia J. Gulli, Alexander McCall Smith, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, James Lee Burke, John M. Floyd, Joyce Carol Oates0, Jonathan Rabb1, Andrew Crowley2, Michael Bond3, Jo Nesbø4, H. G. Wells5, Laura Benedict6, Shirley Jackson7, Mark Mower8, Lorenzo Carcaterra9, Ray Bradbury0, P. G. Wodehouse1, Ruth Ware2, Kira Peikoff3, Zoë Sharp4, Catherine Aird5, R. L. Stine6, Walter Mosley7, Samantha Lokai8, Charles Todd9, Tennessee Williams0, James S. Dorr1, John Mortimer2, Michael Mallory3 ...
    Best of “The Strand Magazine”: 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction“The Strand Magazine was always a giant voice in our corner of the literary world—and it still is today. This collection proves why—these unearthed gems and exciting new pieces shouldn’t be missed.” —Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher seriesThis star-studded anniversary ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Rumpole Misbehaves

    by John Mortimer ...
    The next novel in the Rumpole series from the beloved and bestselling master of the courtThe Rumpole novels have garnered legions of fans who show no sign of abandoning their favorite curmudgeonly British barrister. Now in Rumpole Misbehaves, our hero takes on nothing less than the New Labour government when their ridiculous new Anti- Social Behavior Orders land a Timson child in front of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Naked Justice

    by Sir John Mortimer ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Three strange people, two men and a woman, arrive in a house where they are obviously expected. Who are they? They talk about crime. Are they criminals? The woman talks a lot about sex, what dubious business is she in? A play about the act of judging: can it be separated from the character and past of who sits in judgement?Naked Justice toured the UK in 2001. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Rumpole and the Reign of Terror

    by John Mortimer ...
    John Mortimer's bestselling barrister is back, in his most timely case yetJust 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. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Rumpole Rests His Case

    by John Mortimer ...
    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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders

    by John Mortimer ...
    The Rumpole renaissance continues to build, and now the beloved barrister’s many followers have a special reason to rejoice: a sensational full-length Rumpole novel that at last relates the oft-mentioned but never revealed story of Rumpole’s first case, the Penge Bungalow affair. Looking back half a century into a very different world, Rumpole recalls a man accused of murdering his father and his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • John Mortimer: Plays Two

    The Wrong Side of the Park; Mill Hill; Bermondsey; Knightsbridge; Marble Arch; Edwin

    by Sir John Mortimer ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the plays The Wrong Side of the Park, Come as You Are and EdwinThis second volume of Oberon's new edition of John Mortimer's Collected Plays contains two full-length works, The Wrong Side of the Park and Edwin, and four short plays known collectively as Come As You Are and individually named after parts of London.Mill Hill concerns a dentist, his wife and a friend who likes to dress up as ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Quite Honestly

    by John Mortimer ...
    From the creator of the Rumpole stories-a novel of middle-class do-gooding gone awryFans of John Mortimer and his popular Rumpole mysteries will love Quite Honestly, a comedy filled with a delightful cast of characters and Mortimers unique and entertaining take on a life of crime. Life couldnt be better for Lucinda Purefoy-college educated, with a steady boyfriend and a job offer in advertising. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD