Book description
Rumpole and the Primrose Path - six hilarious crime capers
starring John Mortimer's iconic character
'Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal' P. D James,
Mail on Sunday
'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole'
Clive James, Observer
Rumpole was last seen in his hospital bed after his sudden collapse
in court. Now our hero finds himself in the Primrose Path nursing home
- or a hospice as he persists in describing it. Things aren't looking
good for Rumpole - until suddenly he begins to sense there's something
wrong with the place, and all his intelligence and formidable insight
into human behaviour come to the fore again. And once he has solved
the mystery of the Primrose Path nursing home, Rumpole finds the
briefs fly thick and fast again.
This delightful collection of six Rumpole stories shows the
legendary advocate on top form. Readers of Sherlock Holmes, P.
D. James and P. G. Wodehouse will love this book.
Sir John Mortimer was a barrister, playwright and novelist. His
fictional political trilogy of Paradise Postponed, Titmuss
Regained and The Sound of Trumpets has recently been
republished in Penguin Classics, together with Clinging to the
Wreckage and his play A Voyage round My Father. His most
famous creation was the barrister Horace Rumpole, who featured in four
novels and around eighty short stories. His books in Penguin include:
The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole; The Collected
Stories of Rumpole; The First Rumpole Omnibus; Rumpole and the Angel
of Death; Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders; Rumpole and the
Primrose Path; Rumpole and the Reign of Terror; Rumpole and the
Younger Generation; Rumpole at Christmas; Rumpole Rests His Case;
The Second Rumpole Omnibus; Forever Rumpole; In Other Words; Quite
Honestly and Summer's Lease.
JOHN MORTIMER is a novelist, playwright and former practising
barrister. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole
stories and a trilogy of political novels (PARADISE POSTPONED, TITMUSS
REGAINED and THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS) featuring Leslie Titmuss - a
character as brilliant as Rumpole. John Mortimer received a knighthood
for his services to the arts in 1998.
