Rumpole at Christmas - Hardcover

Mortimer, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670917915 ISBN 13: 9780670917914

Verlag: Viking, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Rumpole at Christmas

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Reseña del editor

Pantos, puds and a Father Christmas who isn't quite what he seems to be...

Rumpole isn't particularly fond of Christmas - time has a horrible habit of hanging heavily on the hands as the usual rituals are observed: exchanging presents with She Who Must Be Obeyed (a tie for him; lavender water for her) before settling down round the fire at Froxbury Mansions for a traditional turkey with all the trimmings and a bottle of Chateau Thames Embankment, then the Queen's Speech and a glass of port. But at least the criminal fraternity never rests, and many is the time Rumpole's 'celebrations' have been rudely interrupted. In these seven Christmas stories, previously published only in magazines, the call of justice (and a bit of excitement) leads Rumpole as far afield as a health farm in Norfolk and as near to home as a pantomime at the Tufnell Park Empire.

Biografía del autor

Sir John Mortimer published his first collection of Rumpole stories in Penguin in 1978. By the time he died in January 2009, leaving behind 4000 words of a recently begun Rumpole novel, the character of Horace Rumpole had become his most famous fictional creation. These seven Rumpole Christmas stories were originally commissioned by a number of British and American magazines, and are here published in book form for the first time.

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• Verlag: Viking
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0670917915
• ISBN 13: 9780670917914
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160