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Paradise postponed
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38 editions published between 1985 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,651 WorldCat member libraries worldwide At his death, a right-thinking, leftleaning rector of a village outside London leaves all his resources in the hands of Leslie Titmuss. Everyone wonders what induced the Reverend to favor a man with a single-minded lust for profit
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders
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24 editions published between 2004 and 2008 in English and held by 2,400 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The story of Rumpole's first client follows the fledgling barrister's participation in the trial of a man accused of murdering his father and a friend with a German pistol, a case that established Rumpole's career
Rumpole on trial
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27 editions published between 1992 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,287 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Seven new Rumpole stories feature the endearing barrister entangled in a bout with devil worshippers, fending off the advances of a desperate wife, and snagging a modern-day Artful Dodger
Rumpole and the reign of terror
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31 editions published between 2006 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,238 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Curmudgeonly barrister Horace Rumpole struggles to defend a Pakistani doctor who has been falsely accused of aiding al-Qaeda, an effort that is complicated by Rumpole's exacting wife's decision to record her life story
Rumpole and the primrose path
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31 editions published between 2002 and 2004 in English and held by 2,216 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In a collection of stories, curmudgeonly London barrister Horace Rumpole, recovering from a heart attack, takes on a nasty head nurse at his run-down convalescent center as he investigates the mysterious death of an elderly patient
Rumpole rests his case
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20 editions published between 2001 and 2008 in English and held by 2,134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A collection of short mysteries features the opinionated Horace Rumpole as he triumphs over the forces of prejudice and "muddled humanity" while tiptoeing precariously through the domestic territory of "She Who Must Be Obeyed."
Quite honestly
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21 editions published between 2005 and 2007 in English and held by 2,081 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. Granted it's a little embarrassing, her father being the Bishop of Aldershot, but she's got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences and the offer of a job in advertising. With all this, she felt she should 'pay back her debt to society' and 'do a little good in the world'
Rumpole à la carte
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33 editions published between 1990 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,076 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Six new tales of Britain's best loved barrister-at-law, Horace Rumpole
Titmuss regained
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32 editions published between 1990 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,973 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A strange and compelling love story set against the battle over a new town
Summer's lease
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30 editions published between 1988 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,965 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An advertisement to lease an Italian villa for the summer attracts the attention of Molly Pargeter. Reluctantly, her husband is persuaded and the family arrives in Italy. They soon come to the ominous conclusions about the absent owner of the villa
Rumpole and the angel of death
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19 editions published between 1995 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,931 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Six stories featuring an English barrister-turned-sleuth. In Rumpole and the Rights of Man, he finds at the European Court of Human Rights that international justice is as fallible as the domestic variety, while Rumpole and the Way Through the Woods involves him in a clash between hunters and animal rights activists
The sound of trumpets
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27 editions published between 1990 and 2010 in English and held by 1,844 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A satire on British politics and the class system starring Leslie Titmuss, a modern Machiavelli, as he manipulates behind the scenes to gain victory for his puppet in a by-election. A tale of duplicity and back stabbing by the author of Rumpole of the Bailey
Dunster
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22 editions published between 1992 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,655 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Two men, Dick Dunster and Philip Progmire, are locked in an adversarial friendship from childhood into adulthood and marriage
Felix in the underworld
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21 editions published between 1997 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,615 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In England, a woman sues a writer for support, naming him father of her 11-year-old son. When the woman is killed the writer is a suspect and goes into hiding among the homeless, but is caught. Thankfully, there is his publicist, whom he has always been nice to, and she might clear his name
Rumpole misbehaves
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8 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 1,590 WorldCat member libraries worldwide His ire raised by a series of procedural abuses through which children have been imprisoned without trial for innocent activities, barrister Horace Rumpole defends a youth who has been targeted for playing on a posh street
The narrowing stream
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15 editions published between 1954 and 1996 in English and Danish and held by 1,385 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The story of Julia, faithful wife and mother, whose restless desire to escape lies dormant until the death of a young girl, and the appearance of a strange young man combine to fill her life with danger and dread
Rumpole of the Bailey
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29 editions published between 1978 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,289 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Six stories featuring the beloved barrister at his best
The Oxford book of villains
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8 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,185 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Villains have been celebrated in song and drama, poem and fiction since the Bible first recorded the exploits of Adam's descendants. John Mortimer is ideally placed, as an author and QC, to compile an anthology of the most infamous representatives, real and imagined, of the criminal world. Whether or not the Devil has all the best tunes, Milton's Satan has some very good lines, good enough, according to Marlowe and Goethe, to persuade a man to sell his soul. Not all
Like men betrayed
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19 editions published between 1953 and 1994 in English and held by 1,076 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Rumpole Christmas
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5 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 1,012 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Five holiday tales feature the curmudgeon barrister more
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Clifford Mortimer, John 1923-2009
Hamilton Mortimer, John 1923-2009
Mortimer, Dž. 1923-2009
Mortimer, Dzh., 1923-2009
Mortimer, John.
Mortimer, John, 1923-2009
Mortimer, John Clifford, 1923-
Mortimer, John Clifford, 1923-2009
Mortimer, John (John Clifford), 1923-2009
Mortimer, Johnnie, 1923-2009
جون مورتيمر، 1923-2009
モーティマー, ジョン
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