Christmas With an Old Bailey Hack

I showed in a previous post a reviewer’s article on Rumpole. In that post there is an article to purchase the book.

Here is a link to that article

Here is another great review from the good guys over at The American Spectator (below)

Looks like I’m not going to wait around to get the book for Christmas after reading this. I mean, seriously.

This slim volume of witty stories is the perfect stocking-stuffer for fans of the gruff but literate and charming, claret-soaked advocate Horace Rumpole, a creation of the late, claret-soaked, former English barrister John Mortimer.

Before going further we should clear up that Rumpole is the Horace Rumpole of the popular PBS series, Rumpole of the Bailey, 44 episodes of which were broadcast in America on PBS's “Mystery” between 1978 and 1992. The episodes are all very true to Mortimer's stories and novels, fiction informed by Mortimer's long and eventful career at the bar, and by his jaundiced view of the shortcomings of old father Antic the law.

A Rumpole Christmas will be a bittersweet pleasure for fans of Mortimer, who, sad to say, went to his reward in January. Which reward, if God is a reader and has a sense of humor, will be considerable, even though Mortimer the man was less than pious for most of his life.