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Summary: Horace Rumpole: Irreverent--Eccentric--Irresistible
Review: With his marmelade-stained vest and his crumpled hat, and with a quotation from the "Oxford Book of English Verse" (Quiller-Couch Edition) never far from his lips, he has labored long in that field of bloodless verbal combat known as criminal trial practice. Because of his aversion to seeing folks "banged up in the nick," he (almost) always defends. His insights into trial practice, human nature, and the manipulation of opposing counsel are priceless. He fears no man, but he quakes in the presence of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed (his wife). He is Horace Rumpole, the bane of judges and the champion of the Timsons, a large and industrious family of South-London villians. Not only a master advocate, Rumpole is a detective of the first order, and he usually solves the various mysteries he confronts with dispatch and good humor. Well written mysteries, excellent insight into human nature, dry British comedy, and a loveable character who has been labeled the best mock-heroic fatty since Falstaff--What more could a mystery lover or a reader of courtroom drama wish for? A "Fourth Rumpole Omnibus!"
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