The Third Rumpole Omnibus

The Third Rumpole Omnibus

This compilation of witty mysteries captures <b>John Mortimer'</b>s deft writing. Rumpole a la Carte, a delightful discourse on the British legal system, takes us from a restaurant battle over Rumpole's mashed spuds to a confrontation with a detective-novelist on a ship. The zany yarns of <b>Rumpole on Trial</b> are ingenious: devil worshippers, Juvenile Court, a mysterious seductress searching for a barrister to defend her husband for a murder not yet committed, and courtroom strategies a little too lunatic force Rumpole to face the Disciplinary Committee of the Bar Council. <b>Rumpole and the Angel of Death</b> offers a comic commentary on cruelty to animals, human rights, and the fallibility of the justice system. <b>The Third Rumpole Omnibus</b> promises insight and laughter from the barrister who's "as much a detective as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot" (<b>The Boston Sunday Globe</b>).