Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders

1st American ed.
  • 3 Want to read

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 3 Want to read

Buy this book

Last edited by ImportBot
December 17, 2022 | History

Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders

1st American ed.
  • 3 Want to read

"Often mentioned but never before revealed, it's high time Rumpole committed to paper his memories of the Penge Bungalow affair. It would be an affront to history if the details of such a famous case were lost in the mists of time." "Horace Rumpole was a novice at the Old Bailey when the murders at Penge Bungalow first hit the headlines: two war heroes who'd flown numerous sorties together over Europe, apparently shot dead after a reunion dinner by the son of one of them, young Simon Jerrold." "Young he might have been, but in those dark postwar days, Simon Jerrold was facing the ultimate punishment. There seemed little he could hope for since the evidence was so incriminating. Even old Wystan - head of Chambers, father of Hilda and conducting Jerrold's defense - seemed to have given up the game. But not Rumpole. There was something about the evidence that bothered him and, though he was only Wystan's junior in the case, when the time came for him to seize the initiative, he did it triumphantly."--BOOK JACKET.

Publish Date
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Pages
214

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
2007, Penguin
Paperback in English
Cover of: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders
2005, Penguin Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders
2005, Center Point Pub.
in English
Cover of: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders
2004, Viking
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders
2004, Viking
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6025.O7552 R785 2004, PR6025.O7552R785

The Physical Object

Pagination
214 p. ;
Number of pages
214

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3309115M
Internet Archive
rumpolepengebun00mort
ISBN 10
0670033561
LCCN
2004057197
OCLC/WorldCat
56367787
Library Thing
221834
Goodreads
914268

Work Description

Light Blue for big ideas Green for mystery
Orange for fantastic fiction Pink for distant lands
Dark Blue for real lives Purple for viewpoints

John Mortimer's 'Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders' sees our eponymous hero tackle his first-ever case. It is just after the war and two RAF heroes are found shot dead. Simon Jerold, the son of one of the victims, is the only suspect and young Rumpole is given the hopeless task of defending him. But Rumpole is determined to save his client from the gallows and make a name for himself. His bid to do so opens the first chapter in the story of the law's finest comic creation.

Whether orange, blue, green, pink or purple, Penguin Celebrations give readers everywhere unique voices, enthralling stories and quite simply the best books of their kind to be published in recent years.

What's not to celebrate?

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
December 17, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
December 11, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
August 21, 2020 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
February 13, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot remove fake subjects
October 13, 2009 Created by WorkBot create work page