Rumpole And The Angel Of Death

341 Pages·2016·0.84 MB·English

by  Mortimer John

Six new tales of the Wordswoeth-loving, cigar-smoking, irrepressible pillar of
the British legal system, Horace Rumpole. And for the very first time, Hilda, She
Who Must Be Obeyed, tells a story all of her own.

‘Rumpole is simply one of the great fictional characters of modern English
literature’
- Marcel Berlins in the Sunday Times

‘A Rumpole adventure is the nearest thing I know to the Wodehousian
perfection of the Jeeves stories, from which they are lineally descended’ -
Richard Last in the Daily Telegraph

‘One of the great comic creations of modern times’ - Christopher Matthew in the
Evening Standard .

‘I thank Heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole’ - Clive James

‘Rumpole is worthy to join the great gallery of English oddballs ranging from
pickwick to Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves and Berrie Wooster’ - J. W. Lambert in the
Sunday
Times

‘The best mock heroic fatty since Falstaff’
- Alan Coren
By the same author
Charade
Rumming Park
Answer Yes or No
Like Men Betrayed
Three Winters
The Narrowing Stream
Will Shakespeare (An Entertainment) Paradise Postponed
Summer’s Lease
Titmuss Regained