If you like Rumpole this is worth locating, very overpriced in used market, make sure book has certificate of authenticity included and note card about author. ( )

i love rumpole. the mix of personal, professional and cases is perfect. i just watched the tv series and decided to listen to the books. the books are just like the show(word for word) ( )

Given my fondness for older British works, especially mysteries, I thought I might very much enjoy Rumpole. I was, however, mistaken; I found him merely all right. I think it’s partly the later date—just not quite as… charming? or something… as the earlier books. The manners aren’t as polished, for instance. Rumpole’s lackluster marriage to She Who Must Be Obeyed isn’t the kind of thing I enjoy, either. And his cases are often, though not always, unsatisfying. For instance, he’s making great headway towards getting a young woman off for selling drugs, arguing that the undercover policeman was an agent provocateur, when she insists on telling him why she had decided to sell drugs (before she ever met the policeman), and then he has to tell her to plead guilty. She gets three years. And so on. I finished the book, but won’t be taking in any more Rumpole. ( )

An amusing book, with the unlikely hero, if you want to call it that, of Rumpole, a pretty ordinary looking lawyer, toiling away at his job of defending clients, putting up with his wife, his co-workers, and all that sort of thing.

However, he does tend to stick up the underdog and try and look into things that don't seem right.

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Could anyone not like Rumpole, the witty, curmudgeonly barrister who toils at the coal face of the criminal judicial system; at the mercy of She Who Must Be Obeyed, and his clerk Henry. Mortimer's Rumpole books are as evocative of a time and place in England as P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves & Wooster novels - and just as funny. ( )