{"product_id":"rumpole-and-the-penge-bungalow-murders","title":"Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders\u003c\/i\u003e - a classic story starring John Mortimer's most iconic character \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Rumpole like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes is immortal' P. D James \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHorace Rumpole - cigar-smoking claret-drinking Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients - often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. Now for the first time the sensational story of the Penge Bungalow Murders case is told in full: how shortly after the war Rumpole took on the seemingly impossible task of defending young Simon Jerold accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a German officer's gun. And how the inexperienced young brief was left alone to pursue the path of justice in a case that was to echo through the Bailey for years to come. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Mortimer's hilarious Rumpole which fans of \u003ci\u003eSherlock Holmes\u003c\/i\u003e and P.G. Wodehouse will love sees the magician of the Old Bailey at his unpredictable and brilliant best. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir John Mortimer was a barrister playwright and novelist. His fictional political trilogy of \u003ci\u003eParadise Postponed Titmuss Regained\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Trumpets\u003c\/i\u003e has recently been republished in Penguin Classics together with \u003ci\u003eClinging to the Wreckage\u003c\/i\u003e and his play \u003ci\u003eA Voyage round My Father\u003c\/i\u003e. His most famous creation was the barrister Horace Rumpole who featured in four novels and around eighty short stories. His books in Penguin include: \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole; The Collected Stories of Rumpole; The First Rumpole Omnibus; Rumpole and the Angel of Death; Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders; Rumpole and the Primrose Path; Rumpole and the Reign of Terror; Rumpole and the Younger Generation; Rumpole at Christmas; Rumpole Rests His Case; The Second Rumpole Omnibus; Forever Rumpole; In Other Words; Quite Honestly \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSummer's Lease\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55786298736713,"sku":null,"price":11.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0956\/5336\/3785\/files\/5152843482238.jpg?v=1783285972","url":"https:\/\/morebetterbooks.com\/products\/rumpole-and-the-penge-bungalow-murders","provider":"More Better Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}