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Wallis, Bill

Overview
Works: 145 works in 388 publications in 4 languages and 8,983 library holdings
Roles: Narrator, Performer, Actor, Other
Classifications: pr6025.o7552, 823.914
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Most widely held works by Bill Wallis
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16 editions published between and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 622 libraries worldwide
Looking back a half century into a very different world, Rumpole recalls a man accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a pistol taken from a dead German pilot. It was this trial and its outcome that put Rumpole on the map and began to shape him into the eccentric and cantankerous defender of justice and reciter of poetry readers know and love.
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9 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 357 libraries worldwide
After Tommy and Tuppence Beresford move into an old house, they discover a message concerning the death of a woman who had once lived there.
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3 editions published in in English and held by 298 libraries worldwide
Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) may be the pride and joy of the New Labour Party, but they don't cut much ice with Horace Rumpole--he takes the old-fashioned view that if anyone is going to be threatened with a restriction of their liberty then some form of legal proceeding ought to be gone through first. Not that Hilda agrees, of course, but she's too busy completing her memoirs to dissuade him from taking an interest when one of the Timson children is given an ASBO for playing football in the street. And pretty soon he realizes something fishy is going on. Why are the residents pursuing their vendetta against the Timson boy quite so strongly? Could they have a sinister reason for not wanting him on their street?
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8 editions published in in English and held by 277 libraries worldwide
While defending a mind-numbingly dull theft charge, Rumpole finds that the new terrorist laws have hamstrung his beloved courts. Meanwhile, a Pakistani doctor has been imprisoned without charge or trial under suspicion of aiding al Qaeda in its plans for a terrorist attack. With the doctor's wife begging him to help her husband, the Great Defender is determined to bring the case before a jury. Trouble is also brewing at home as Hilda--She Who Must Be Obeyed--sits down to write her own memoirs describing her view of Rumpole and her own love life. Rumpole's battle on the home front threatens to derail his case but where there's a Rumpole, there's a way!
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5 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 249 libraries worldwide
Solving the mystery of the Primrose Path Home proves to be the first of a collection of great new cases, as Rumpole defies hospital and returns triumphantly to defend the innocent--and the not-so-innocent.
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4 editions published in in English and held by 208 libraries worldwide
Collected here are stories about Horace Rumpole, with a Christmast theme.
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3 editions published between and 2001 in English and held by 189 libraries worldwide
Within contains a collection of fouteen new short stories, and all with that trademark twist in the tale. Witness love at first sight across the train tracks, the cleverest of confidence tricks, the quirks of the legal profession, and creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty's diplomatic service.
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5 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 184 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 2010 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 180 libraries worldwide
The stories reveal more of the splendours and miseries of life.
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2 editions published in in English and held by 177 libraries worldwide
When the deputy editor of the right-wing magazine where Amiss is working is found dead, the suspects are many and the clues are few.
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6 editions published in in English and held by 160 libraries worldwide
When the Second Secretary of the embassy in Istanbul dies from a bullet hole in his head while trying to swim the Dardanelles Straits, the Foreign Office sends Seymour to investigate.
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6 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 158 libraries worldwide
In this collection, Horace Rumpole takes on the con-o-sewers of the art world, journeys deep into the throbbing heart of Africa, dabbles in some female politics, decides the country is a very dangerous place, and incurs the wrath of Hilda ... The stories are: Rumpole and the Genuine Artlicle, Rumpole and the Golden Thread, Rumpole and the Old Boy Net, Rumpole and the Female of the Species, Rumpole and the Sporting Life and Rumpole and the Last Resort.
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4 editions published between and 2001 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 151 libraries worldwide
Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities. Soon, however, the arrangements crumble around his ears.
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3 editions published in in English and held by 150 libraries worldwide
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3 editions published in in English and held by 140 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 134 libraries worldwide
Ida "Jack" Troutbeck, mistress of St. Martha's College, has been elevated to the peerage, and the House of Lords will never be the same. Disinclined to watch her language or moderate her manners, she apalls conventional peers, but plots with others to scupper an anti-hunting bill of which she disapproves. She feels confident of winning, but hasn't reckoned against a campaign of intimidation.
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4 editions published between and 2000 in English and held by 131 libraries worldwide
When an enormous bequest is left to St Martha's College, the dons split into three factions with three goals. One of their number is found dead, and once again Robert Amiss finds himself within a murder investigation.
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5 editions published between and 2000 in English and held by 130 libraries worldwide
It is 1931 and two confidence tricksters board a transatlantic liner. They meet Miss Charnwood and her wealthy niece. It's a trick they've pulled before; charm the girl, then get her father to buy you off. Who would imagine that these smooth operators would let their hearts rule their heads? Or that they would stumble into something much darker and deeper than either had suspected?
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8 editions published between and 2009 in English and held by 120 libraries worldwide
It's World War I. Britain has ruled Egypt since 1881 under a shadow government headed by its Agent and Consul General under the nominal authority of Egypt's hereditary ruler the Khedive. The head of the Secret Police is the Mamur Zapt, an office currently held by a Welshman, Captain Gareth Cadwallader Owen. And as the clouds of the war further darken Egypt's sun-lit skies, he has his hands full. On the professional front, there's all that commotion that started in Cairo's Camel Market. On the personal side, Owen has married his longtime lover, the lovely Pasha's daughter, Zeinab, a move with serious consequences for both of them and riddled with political and social pitfalls. Neither can be fully accepted by the other's culture and community. Against this, the perils of the Great War pale.
 
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