I hadn’t heard of this book before until I read the review. As a lover of mystery and suspense books, this is the perfect gift to give other book lovers. And, because it is a book around a Christmas theme, I feel it is a much more personal gift than a book.
Don’t get me wrong. I love getting books, and I give them too. It’s just that this one seems different to me. Very cool. The author of the review has a link on his site to purchase the book.
A Rumpole Christmas
When it comes to Christmas, Horace Rumpole is just about as brimming with good cheer as Ebenezer Scrooge, pre-haunting. “I have no rooted objection to Christmas Day, but I must say it’s an occasion when time tends to hang particularly heavy on the hands,” the barrister muses in a slim new collection, A Rumpole Christmas. “From the early morning alarm call of carols piping on Radio Four to the closing headlines and a restless, liverish sleep, the day can seem as long as a fraud on the Post Office tried before Mr. Injustice Graves.” More…
The gift exchange doesn’t take long – there’s the “ritual bottle” of lavender water for Hilda (aka She Who Must Be Obeyed), and a tie for Rumpole – followed by pudding and a frozen turkey from Safeway. “I suppose what I have against Christmas Day is that the courts are all shut and no one is being tried for anything,” he sums up in the collection’s best story, “Rumpole and the Old Familiar Faces.”
read the whole review & get the book here >> A Rumpole Christmas
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