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A BBC Radio 4 Drama Collection

The Tudor Crown

32 BBC Radio full-cast dramas

Rumpole: A BBC Radio Collection

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Rumpole's Return

The Trials of Rumpole

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Rumpole and the Old Familiar Faces

Two BBC Radio 4 dramatisations

Rumpole: On Trial & Going for Silk

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Rumpole: The Teenage Werewolf & other stories

Four BBC Radio 4 dramatisations starring Timothy West

Rumpole: The Primrose Path & other stories

Three BBC Radio 4 dramatisations

Rumpole: The Golden Thread & other stories

Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole: The Way Through the Woods & other stories

Rumpole: On Trial & other stories

Rumpole: The Age of Miracles & other stories

Rumpole: The Sleeping Partners & other stories

Rumpole: The Gentle Art of Blackmail & other stories

Rumpole: The Penge Bungalow Murders & other stories

The Splendours and Miseries of an Old Bailey Hack

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John Mortimer In His Own Words

The Collected Stories of Rumpole

Rumpole and the Primrose Path

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We last left Rumpole in his hospital bed after his sudden collapse in court. Now our hero finds himself in the Primrose Path nursing home - or a hospice as he persists in describing it. Things aren't looking good for Rumpole - until suddenly he begins to sense there's something wrong with the place, and all his intelligence and formidable insight into human behaviour come to the fore again. And once he has solved the mystery of the Primrose Path nursing home, Rumpole finds the briefs fly thick and fast again. 
This collection of six brand-new Rumpole stories shows the legendary advocate on top form.

Sold over 30,000 copies in hardback to date.

Rumpole and the Primrose Path - six hilarious crime capers starring John Mortimer's iconic character 
 
'Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal' P. D James, Mail on Sunday 
 
'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James, Observer 
 
Rumpole was last seen in his hospital bed after his sudden collapse in court. Now our hero finds himself in the Primrose Path nursing home - or a hospice as he persists in describing it. Things aren't looking good for Rumpole - until suddenly he begins to sense there's something wrong with the place, and all his intelligence and formidable insight into human behaviour come to the fore again. And once he has solved the mystery of the Primrose Path nursing home, Rumpole finds the briefs fly thick and fast again. 
 
This delightful collection of six Rumpole stories shows the legendary advocate on top form. Readers of Sherlock Holmes, P.D. James and P.G. Wodehouse will love this book. 
 Sir John Mortimer was a barrister, playwright and novelist. His fictional political trilogy of Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets has recently been republished in Penguin Classics, together with Clinging to the Wreckage and his play A Voyage round My Father. His most famous creation was the barrister Horace Rumpole, who featured in four novels and around eighty short stories. His books in Penguin include: The 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 and Summer's Lease.

JOHN MORTIMER is a novelist, playwright and former practising barrister. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole stories and a trilogy of political novels (PARADISE POSTPONED, TITMUSS REGAINED and THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS) featuring Leslie Titmuss - a character as brilliant as Rumpole. John Mortimer received a knighthood for his services to the arts in 1998.

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