About the Author
John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.
Table of Contents
Rumpole and the confession of guilt -- Rumpole and the gentle art of blackmail -- Rumpole and the dear departed -- Rumpole and the rotten apple -- Rumpole and the expert witness -- Rumpole and the spirit of Christmas -- Rumpole and the boat people.