His ire raised by a series of procedural abuses through which children have been imprisoned by neighborhood snobs without trial for innocent activities, barrister Horace Rumpole defends a youth who has been targeted for playing on a posh street, but his efforts are complicated by Rumpole's jokester colleagues. 60,000 first printing.
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Recensione:
“Rumpole is one of the immortals of mystery fiction.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
L'autore:
John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.
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- EditoreViking Pr
- Data di pubblicazione2007
- ISBN 10 0670018309
- ISBN 13 9780670018307
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine197
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