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Product Description: [Read by Bill Wallace] Horace Rumpole--who never prosecutes, whose fame rests on an infinite knowledge of blood and typewriters, whose court scenes are proverbial, whose home is ruled by Mrs. Rumpole (''She Who Must Be Obeyed'')--is back on the defense, as irreverent, as iconoclastic, as claret-swilling, poetry-spouting, impudent, witty, and cynical as ever...read more

Hardcover:

9781562870157, titled "The Trials of Rumpole" | Collectors edition (Armchair Detective Library, November 1, 1991), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The iconoclastic Horace Rumpole returns in a collection of six tales in which the irreverent barrister takes on a half-dozen memorable cases
9780851191553 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, March 1, 1985), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: [Read by Bill Wallace] Horace Rumpole--who never prosecutes, whose fame rests on an infinite knowledge of blood and typewriters, whose court scenes are proverbial, whose home is ruled by Mrs.
9780891902768 | Reprint edition (Amereon Ltd, June 1, 1940), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: "Rumpole has been an inspired stroke of good fortune for us all.

Paperback:

9780140246971, titled "The Trials of Rumpole" | Reissue edition (Viking Pr, June 1, 1996), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: "Rumpole has been an inspired stroke of good fortune for us all.
9780140051629, titled "The Trials of Rumpole" | Viking Pr, cover price $6.00 | also contains Wild Beasts and Their Ways: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition | About this edition: The irrepressible English barrister becomes involved with cases of shoplifting, murder, art theft, and mistaken identity as he represents a minister, an actress, a racist Parliamentary candidate, and others

CD/Spoken Word:

9780754087427 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, June 1, 2003), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Horace Rumpole, whose court scenes are proverbial, and whose home is ruled by Mrs.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754083078 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, June 1, 2003), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: [Read by Bill Wallace] Horace Rumpole--who never prosecutes, whose fame rests on an infinite knowledge of blood and typewriters, whose court scenes are proverbial, whose home is ruled by Mrs.
9780786104222, titled "The Trials of Rumpole" | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook Cassette Library Edition in vinyl case.
9780886461188, titled "The Trials of Rumpole" | Dh Audio, November 1, 1985, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: "Rumpole has been an inspired stroke of good fortune for us all.

Product Description: Horace Rumpole is supposedly enjoying his well-earned retirement basking in the Florida sunshine. But a colleague's casual request for advice on a difficult case sends him hurriedly back across the Atlantic. Leaving retirement far behind, the irreverent and claret-swilling Rumpole soon finds himself facing a fanatical religious cult, a mysterious letter written in blood, and the Pornographer-in-Chief to the fair town of Grimble...read more

Hardcover:

9781562870379 | Reprint edition (Armchair Detective Library, October 1, 1992), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Basking in the Florida sunshine during a well-deserved vacation, barrister Horace Rumpole learns of a case that seems tailor-made for his unique investigative skills
9780891902775 | Reprint edition (Amereon Ltd, June 1, 1940), cover price $18.95

Paperback:

9780140055719 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, January 1, 1982), cover price $6.00 | About this edition: English barrister Rumpole retires to sunny Miami to live with his son but finds himself in the midst of an unusual murder investigation after a friend offhandedly asks his advice

CD/Spoken Word:

9780754055136 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, August 31, 2002), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Horace Rumpole is supposedly enjoying his well-earned retirement basking in the Florida sunshine.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754008316 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, August 1, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Basking in the Florida sunshine during a well-deserved vacation, barrister Horace Rumpole learns of a case that seems tailor-made for his unique investigative skills.
9780886461621 | Dh Audio, June 1, 1987, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Does Rumpole decide that life away from the Old Bailey isn't all it's crackedup to be?

Paperback:

9780416127706 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, May 1, 1980, cover price $5.95

Product Description: "Clinging to the Wreckage" - the first part of John Mortimer's hilarious and moving autobiography. "A true masterpiece of the genre". ("The Times"). Here John Mortimer recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother...read more

Hardcover:

9780899191331 | Ticknor & Fields, September 1, 1982, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The versatile English novelist, playwright, and barrister recalls his unusual childhood, hilarious education, war adventures, and erratic career paths--as well as some of the colorful personalities met along the way

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780788713330 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, December 1, 1997), cover price $49.00 | About this edition: "Clinging to the Wreckage" - the first part of John Mortimer's hilarious and moving autobiography.

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The irrepressible English barrister, Horace Rumpole, seeks to uncover the truth behind a variety of unusual cases of crime

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9780140067682 | Penguin USA, January 1, 1984, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The irrepressible English barrister, Horace Rumpole, seeks to uncover the truth behind a variety of unusual cases of crime

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Three plays describe the relationships between a young man and his blind, aging father, a barrister and his client charged with murder, and a girl who refuses to speak and her parents

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9780140072686 | Mti edition (Viking Pr, April 1, 1984), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Three plays describe the relationships between a young man and his blind, aging father, a barrister and his client charged with murder, and a girl who refuses to speak and her parents

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Product Description: The author's interviews in "The Sunday Times" command an enthusiastic following. Using his powers of cross-examination, and his playwright's ear for detail, he talks to such diverse personalities as Graham Greene, Mick Jagger, Enoch Powell and David Hockney.

Paperback:

9780140063899 | Viking Pr, May 1, 1984, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: The author's interviews in "The Sunday Times" command an enthusiastic following.

Paperback:

9780387135564 | Springer Verlag, August 1, 1984, cover price $135.95

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Product Description: Retirement is out of the question for the aging London barrister Horace Rumpole. He's back in another collection of delightful stories. In this collection of stories, Rumpole continues to juggle the vagaries of the law, the ambiguities of crime, and the contradictions of the human heart...read more

Hardcover:

9780792713715 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, November 1, 1992), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Retirement is out of the question for the aging London barrister Horace Rumpole.

Paperback:

9780792713708 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, April 1, 1993), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Retirement is out of the question for the aging London barrister Horace Rumpole.
9780140250145 | Reissue edition (Viking Pr, October 1, 1984), cover price $9.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9780754055532 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, January 1, 2003), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Retirement is out of the question for the aging London barrister Horace Rumpole.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754009078 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, January 1, 2003), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Retirement is out of the question for the aging London barrister Horace Rumpole.
9780786108558 | Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.

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Product Description: In these witty and comic stories, Horace Rumpole takes on a variety of clients and activities. He, of course, brings each case to a successful end, all the while quoting poetry and drinking claret.

Hardcover:

9780792715320 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, March 1, 1993), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In these witty and comic stories, Horace Rumpole takes on a variety of clients and activities.
9780922890811 | Reprint edition (Armchair Detective Library, April 1, 1991), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Horace Rumpole, an English barrister, in dealing with cases of robbery, drug-peddling, rape, divorce, and murder, must often use his sly insight and years of experience to uncover the truth

Paperback:

9780140250121 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, May 1, 1996), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories featuring Rumpole of the Bailey, including "Rumpole and the Younger Generation", "Rumpole and the Alternative Society", "Rumpole and the Honourable Member", "Rumpole and the Married Lady, "Rumpole and the Learned Friends" and "Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade".
9780792715313 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, December 1, 1993), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: These six short stories introduce all the lovable (or not so lovable) characters from the delightful Rumpole series.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780754054931 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, May 1, 2002), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: In these witty and comic stories, Horace Rumpole takes on a variety of clients and activities.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754007876 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, April 1, 2002), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: In these witty and comic stories, Horace Rumpole takes on a variety of clients and activities.
9780786102556 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: These six short stories introduce all the lovable (or not so lovable) characters from the delightful Rumpole series.
9780886460846 | Dh Audio, May 1, 1985, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: In these witty and comic stories, Horace Rumpole takes on a variety of clients and activities.

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Product Description: The villa near a small Tuscan town is everything the Pargeter family could want for three weeks. But when the idyll turns sour, Molly Pargeter begins to wonder about their mysterious absentee landlord.

Hardcover:

9780670819843, titled "Summers' Lease" | Viking Pr, July 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An idyllic summer vacation at a villa in Tuscanny is made less pleasant for Molly Pargeter and her family when she begins to discover disturbing facts about the landlords

Paperback:

9780140158274 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 1991), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The villa near a small Tuscan town is everything the Pargeter family could want for three weeks.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745161761, titled "Summer's Lease" | Chivers Audio Books, June 1, 1989, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: From the author of the highly acclaimed Horace Rumpole series comes an intriguing novel about a family's holiday in Italy that quickly is overshadowed by a strange sense of foreboding.
9781559350600 | Soundelux Audio Pub, June 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From the author of the highly acclaimed Horace Rumpole series comes an intriguing novel about a family's holiday in Italy that quickly is overshadowed by a strange sense of foreboding.

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Product Description: From piracy to child-murder, this collection covers three centuries in its five cases. It includes the cases of Captain William Kidd, Dr Thomas Smethurst, Alfred Rouse, Patrick Carraher and John Thomas Straffen.

Hardcover:

9780880290807 | Hippocrene Books, June 1, 1986, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From piracy to child-murder, this collection covers three centuries in its five cases.

Paperback:

9780387171562 | Springer Verlag, January 1, 1987, cover price $133.00

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On the eve of the Normandy landings, a sensitive young man, assigned to work on an army training documentary, is sent to an English seaside resort where he finds himself part of a bizarre film crew and an unlikely accident

Hardcover:

9780670811861 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, February 1, 1987), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: On the eve of the Normandy landings, a sensitive young man, assigned to work on an army training documentary, is sent to an English seaside resort where he finds himself part of a bizarre film crew and an unlikely accident

Paperback:

9780140092677 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1988, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: On the eve of the Normandy landings, a sensitive young man, assigned to work on an army training documentary, is sent to an English seaside resort where he finds himself part of a bizarre film crew and an unlikely accident

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780816177943 | G K Hall Audio Books, August 1, 1988, cover price $35.95

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British life since World War II is illuminated through the lives and fortunes of Leslie Titmuss and the people of the village of Rapstone Fanner (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780816142477 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1987), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, the Rector's two sons react in very different ways.
9780670800940 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: British life since World War II is vividly illuminated through the lives and fortunes of Leslie Titmuss and the people of the village of Rapstone Fanner

Paperback:

9780140098648 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, January 1, 1999), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: British life since World War II is illuminated through the lives and fortunes of Leslie Titmuss and the people of the village of Rapstone Fanner

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745161754 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, August 1, 1990), cover price $84.95 | About this edition: A literary novel from the author of FELIX IN THE UNDERWORLD, TITMUSS REGAINED and THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS.
9780886462093 | Dh Audio, June 1, 1987, cover price $16.99

Product Description: Like many other new technologies which have since been seized and exploited by others, the industrial robot is a British invention. In 1957, a patent was produced by a British inventor, Cyril Walter Kenward, and later it became crucial to the future of robotics...read more

Paperback:

9780387163536 | Springer Verlag, July 1, 1987, cover price $200.00 | About this edition: Like many other new technologies which have since been seized and exploited by others, the industrial robot is a British invention.
9783540163534, titled "The International Robot Industry Report" | Springer Verlag, June 26, 1987, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The International Robot Industry Report has been compiled from data made available at four major exhibitions: Hannover Fair in West Germany, Robots 9 in the USA, Automan 85 in the UK and Robots 85 in Japan as well as through research interviews.

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Included are twenty stories featuring Horace Rumpole, the claret-swilling, poetry-spouting barristor investigator

Hardcover:

9780670811250 | Viking Pr, December 1, 1987, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Included are twenty stories featuring Horace Rumpole, the claret-swilling, poetry-spouting barristor investigator

Paperback:

9780140089585, titled "The Second Rumpole Omnibus" | Penguin USA, January 1, 1989, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Included are twenty stories featuring Horace Rumpole, the claret-swilling, poetry-spouting barristor investigator

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Product Description: In this spirited memoir John Mortimer, an esteemed barrister as well as novelist, playwright, and journalist, relates all the paradoxes and pleasures of his double life.With wit and style, Mr. Mortimer takes you from his unusual childhood (his father, a blind barrister, insisted that his wife read the sordid details of his divorce briefs in public) to the dilemmas of his life as a barrister (one of his clients indignantly declared, "Your Mr...read more

Paperback:

9780140068603 | Penguin USA, December 1, 1987, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In this spirited memoir John Mortimer, an esteemed barrister as well as novelist, playwright, and journalist, relates all the paradoxes and pleasures of his double life.

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A collection of twenty-nine candid interviews with Lauren Bacall, Billy Graham, Sir Alec Guinness, Boy George and other notables

Paperback:

9780140089592 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1988, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A collection of twenty-nine candid interviews with Lauren Bacall, Billy Graham, Sir Alec Guinness, Boy George and other notables

Product Description: Attention has been focussed on quality improvement through the use of quality management systems and Statistical Process Control. The success of the approach has caused the message to cascade through the supplier chains, and companies in all industries, including those in the process industries, have become aware of the enormous potential of SPC, in terms of cost savings, improvements in quality, productivity and market share...read more

Paperback:

9780387193885 | Springer Verlag, June 1, 1988, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Attention has been focussed on quality improvement through the use of quality management systems and Statistical Process Control.

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Horace Rumpole uses the refined taste of a garage mechanic to discover the reasons for stealing a case of wine, indulges his knowledge of bloodstains and typewriters, and recalls three delightful battles with his archenemy, the Mad Bull,

Hardcover:

9780816146604 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, January 1, 1989), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Horace Rumpole uses the refined taste of a garage mechanic to discover the reasons for stealing a case of wine, indulges his knowledge of bloodstains and typewriters, and recalls three delightful battles with his archenemy, the Mad Bull

Paperback:

9780140126952 | Reissue edition (Select Penguin, December 1, 1994), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Rumpole is on the case again with several interesting cases of murder and suspicious doings passing through chambers.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780754087786 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, August 1, 2003), cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Horace Rumpole uses the refined taste of a garage mechanic to discover the reasons for stealing a case of wine, indulges his knowledge of bloodstains and typewriters, and recalls three delightful battles with his archenemy, the Mad Bull,

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786108015 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 1, 1995), cover price $44.95
9780886466527 | Dh Audio, January 1, 1994, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: The irrepressible, audacious Rumpole is back with seven marvelous stories.
9780886462338 | Dh Audio, June 1, 1988, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Rumpole reveals more of the splendors and miseries of life as an old Bailey hack.

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Product Description: London published Fiction

Hardcover:

9780792719304 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, April 1, 1994), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: London published Fiction
9780670811878 | Viking Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When Kit, the son of solicitor Christopher Kennett disappears, the father leaves behind his safe and well-ordered life to search in London's rougher quarters and learns much about others' struggles and his own heart

Paperback:

9780792719298 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, April 1, 1994), cover price $19.95
9780140092684 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 1990), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: When Kit, the son of solicitor Christopher Kennett, disappears, the father leaves behind his safe and well-ordered life to search in London's rougher quarters, learning much about others' struggles and his own heart

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Product Description: Book by Mortimer, John Clifford

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780881428681 | Soundelux Audio Pub, June 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Book by Mortimer, John Clifford

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Product Description: The lovable, irreverent, claret-swigging, Wordsworth-spouting criminal lawyer returns to the fray to fight new battles against injustice, in this book. Rumpole is featured in an ITV series.

Hardcover:

9780862203146 | Chivers, August 1, 1989, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The lovable, irreverent, claret-swigging, Wordsworth-spouting criminal lawyer returns to the fray to fight new battles against injustice, in this book.

Paperback:

9780783811888 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1995), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The lovable, irreverent, claret-swigging, Wordsworth-spouting criminal lawyer returns to the fray to fight new battles against injustice, in this book.
9780140131161 | Mti edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1989), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Horace Rumpole, a British barrister, handles cases involving libel, fraud, adultry, and attempted murder

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