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"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.
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Crime fiction, Mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Lawyers, Legal stories, Penguin Crime, Solicitors, Attorney and client, Horace Rumpole (Fictitious character), Fiction, Courtroom fiction, Barristers, Trials (Murder), Crime, Rumpole, Horace (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Attorney and client -- Fiction, Trials (Murder) -- Fiction, London (England) -- Fiction, Lawyers, fiction, Rumpole, horace (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, legal, Large type books, London (england), fictionPeople
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Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders
2004, Viking
in English
- 1st American ed.
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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.
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