Rumpole of the Bailey
Horace Rumpole, the irreverent, iconoclastic, claret-swilling, poetry-spouting barrister-at-law, is among the most beloved characters of English crime literature. He is not a particularly gifted attorney, nor is he particularly fond of the law by courts if it comes to that, but he''d rather be swinging at a case than bowing to his wife, Hilda—"She Who Must Be Obeyed."
In this first title of the pop...
Horace Rumpole, the irreverent, iconoclastic, claret-swilling, poetry-spouting barrister-at-law, is among the most beloved characters of English crime literature. He is not a particularly gifted attorney, nor is he particularly fond of the law by courts if it comes to that, but he''d rather be swinging at a case than bowing to his wife, Hilda—"She Who Must Be Obeyed."
In this first title of the pop...
