This compilation of witty mysteries captures
John Mortimer'
s deft writing. Rumpole a la Carte, a delightful discourse on the British legal system, takes us from a restaurant battle over Rumpole's mashed spuds to a confrontation with a detective-novelist on a ship. The zany yarns of
Rumpole on Trial
are ingenious: devil worshippers, Juvenile Court, a mysterious seductress searching for a barrister to defend her husband for a murder not yet committed, and courtroom strategies a little too lunatic force Rumpole to face the Disciplinary Committee of the Bar Council.
Rumpole and the Angel of Death
offers a comic commentary on cruelty to animals, human rights, and the fallibility of the justice system.
The Third Rumpole Omnibus
promises insight and laughter from the barrister who's "as much a detective as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot" (
The Boston Sunday Globe
).