Book description
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror - a delightful novel starring
John Mortimer's iconic barrister
'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
Justice isn't blind - it's just a little short sighted and weak
around the knees ...
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.
This hilarious novel will be loved by fans of Rumpole and readers of
Sherlock Holmes, P. D. James and P. G. Wodehouse.
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. Sir John received a knighthood for his
services to the arts in 1998.
