Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders / John Mortimer.
By: Mortimer, John Clifford.
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BookPublisher: New York : Viking, c2004Description: 214 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0670033561 :.Subject(s): Rumpole, Horace (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Attorney and client -- Fiction | Trials (Murder) -- Fiction | London (England) -- FictionGenre/Form: Mystery fiction. | Legal stories.DDC classification: 823/.914 Summary: In "Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders", John Mortimer tells the story of Rumpole's very first case. Looking back a half century into a very different world, Rumpole recalls a man accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a pistol taken from a dead German pilot. It was this trial and its outcome that put Rumpole on the map and began to shape him into the eccentric and cantankerous defender of justice and reciter of poetry readers know and love.
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In "Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders", John Mortimer tells the story of Rumpole's very first case. Looking back a half century into a very different world, Rumpole recalls a man accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a pistol taken from a dead German pilot. It was this trial and its outcome that put Rumpole on the map and began to shape him into the eccentric and cantankerous defender of justice and reciter of poetry readers know and love.
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