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    Rumpole and the Angel of Death
    Rumpole and the Angel of Death
    Rumpole and the Angel of Death
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    Rumpole and the Angel of Death

    Written by John Mortimer

    Narrated by Jill Tanner and Patrick Tull

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    About this audiobook

    In this collection of six witty short stories, the courageous and corpulent barrister, Horace Rumpole takes on both animal and human rights. And for the first time, Rumpole's formidable wife, Hilda-better known as She Who Must Be Obeyed-tells a story of her own.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateNov 11, 2011
    ISBN9781461811534
    Rumpole and the Angel of Death
    Author

    John Mortimer

    Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE was born in April 1923. After studying at Oxford he was called to the bar at the age of 25, later becoming a QC. He is a celebrated dramatist, screenwriter and author; his most famous creation, Horace Rumpole, appeared in Rumpole of the Bailey, a television series which was later complemented by short stories, novels and radio programmes. Mortimer died in January 2009.

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    • 4/5
      A delightful romp through 6 short stories of the inimitable Rumpole, in one case actually narrated by Hilda, of SWMBO fame. The nice thing about Mortimer's stories is that he leaves the reader enough information to entirely believe the discoveries at the end, except in one story that I found a little hard to believe. Interesting, as it is the only one that takes place outside of England.
    • 3/5
      More Rumpole. The angel of death is a doctor performs what she regards as a mercy killing, and at the end if prepared to offer her services to Rumpole, who abruptly recovers from a hangover.
    • 4/5
      In this latest volume, Rumpole takes on kidnapping and fraud, a mercy killer, an assassination, animal rights activists and upper class murderers and animal rights. One of the stories is narrated by Rumpole's wife Hilda and shows that Rumpole isn't the only legal talent in the family. Mortimer takes what I think is a very intelligent viewpoint: that Rumpole is comfortably out of step with the moden world. Occasionally he uses this to foil the politically correct police, but on rare occasions he is defeated by circumstances he doesn't understand. Nothing new hear, but Rumpole is always reliable and fun to spend time with.
    • 5/5
      Rumpole is indispensable. Rather amazing that only 35 other LibraryThing members had this book in May 2007.