Rumpole and the Angel of Death
Date Published
2012-08-20
Synopsis
Product Description
[Read by Frederick Davidson and Nadia May]
Horace Rumpole, the comic, courageous, and corpulent ''great defender of muddled and sinful humanity,'' is joined by a winning cast of villains and victims in this collection of six tales in which wry humor and sparkling wit deftly send up the British legal system.
In
Rumpole and the Angel of Death, our hero achieves new, resounding triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness. One adventure involves Rumpole in the world of hunters and the hunted, animal rights and human wrongs, while in another he finds that international justice is as fallible as the domestic variety. And for the first time, Hilda, She Who Must Be Obeyed, tells a story all her own.
Included are the following (6) tales:
1. Rumpole and the Model Prisoner
2. Rumpole on the Way through the Woods
3. Hilda's Story: Mrs. Hilda Rumpole
4. Rumpole and the Little Boy Lost
5. Rumpole and the Rights of Man
6. Rumpole and the Angel of Death
Review
''As always, Mortimer writes with a Wodehousian elan but, unlike Wodehouse, he incorporates a spirited if indirect wrestling with the social and political issues of the day . . . Rumpole is by turns acutely sensitive and brazenly bullheaded, as Mortimer dances nimbly around thorny subjects with his trademark ease, applying all-knowing wit and painstaking characterization.'' --
Publishers Weekly
''The irascible but always entertaining Rumpole is back, this time in a series of short stories that have him facing the usual assortment of human detritus at the Old Bailey. . . Mortimer's stories may lack the gritty drama associated with the hard-boiled arm of the genre, but what he does provide is class, charm, and a wry commentary on a way of life.'' --
Booklist
''Six more briefs for the indomitable defender of the guiltiest-looking defendants the Old Bailey has ever seen . . . give Rumpole more than his share of hopeless cases . . . The bonus here, 'Hilda's Story,' gives Mrs. Rumpole, She Who Must Be Obeyed, the chance to recount Rumpole's defense of an alleged parricide from her own point of view.'' --
Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
JOHN MORTIMER (1923-2009) was a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister. He wrote many film scripts, radio, and television plays, and his plays about Rumpole of the Bailey won him the British Academy Writer of the Year Award. He retired from the bar in 1984 and was knighted in 1998.
[Read by Frederick Davidson and Nadia May]
Horace Rumpole, the comic, courageous, and corpulent ''great defender of muddled and sinful humanity,'' is joined by a winning cast of villains and victims in this collection of six tales in which wry humor and sparkling wit deftly send up the British legal system.
In
Rumpole and the Angel of Death, our hero achieves new, resounding triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness. One adventure involves Rumpole in the world of hunters and the hunted, animal rights and human wrongs, while in another he finds that international justice is as fallible as the domestic variety. And for the first time, Hilda, She Who Must Be Obeyed, tells a story all her own.
Included are the following (6) tales:
1. Rumpole and the Model Prisoner
2. Rumpole on the Way through the Woods
3. Hilda's Story: Mrs. Hilda Rumpole
4. Rumpole and the Little Boy Lost
5. Rumpole and the Rights of Man
6. Rumpole and the Angel of Death
Review
''As always, Mortimer writes with a Wodehousian elan but, unlike Wodehouse, he incorporates a spirited if indirect wrestling with the social and political issues of the day . . . Rumpole is by turns acutely sensitive and brazenly bullheaded, as Mortimer dances nimbly around thorny subjects with his trademark ease, applying all-knowing wit and painstaking characterization.'' --
Publishers Weekly
''The irascible but always entertaining Rumpole is back, this time in a series of short stories that have him facing the usual assortment of human detritus at the Old Bailey. . . Mortimer's stories may lack the gritty drama associated with the hard-boiled arm of the genre, but what he does provide is class, charm, and a wry commentary on a way of life.'' --
Booklist
''Six more briefs for the indomitable defender of the guiltiest-looking defendants the Old Bailey has ever seen . . . give Rumpole more than his share of hopeless cases . . . The bonus here, 'Hilda's Story,' gives Mrs. Rumpole, She Who Must Be Obeyed, the chance to recount Rumpole's defense of an alleged parricide from her own point of view.'' --
Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
JOHN MORTIMER (1923-2009) was a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister. He wrote many film scripts, radio, and television plays, and his plays about Rumpole of the Bailey won him the British Academy Writer of the Year Award. He retired from the bar in 1984 and was knighted in 1998.
Book Details
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Language
en