Fans of the indomitable Horace Rumpole and his redoubtable creator, John Mortimer, may rejoice. At nearly 84, Mortimer has produced in “Rumpole Misbehaves” one of the best of the 16 story collections ...

Mortimer's many fans on both sides of the Atlantic will delight in Horace Rumpole's return after a six-year hiatus in this amusing collection of the gruff but lovable barrister's latest exploits. The ...

Two weeks ago we looked at John le Carre's early portrait of his master spy, George Smiley. Today, we have le Carre's slightly older, more lighthearted contemporary, John Mortimer, presenting his much ...

For years now, fans of the redoubtable British barrister Horace Rumpole have heard him make references to the groundbreaking murder trial that first put him on the map. Now, at long last, his creator, ...

Mortimer's beloved barrister, Horace Rumpole, at last tells the tale, hitherto mentioned only in passing, of the Penge Bungalow murders, the case that made his reputation as a defense lawyer decades ...

"Rumpole, you must move with the times." "If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them." She and her sister Rosie have been working on an even more emotional ...

Mr. Mortimer was a barrister, author, playwright and the creator of Horace Rumpole, the cunning defender of the British criminal classes. By Helen T. Verongos John Mortimer, who died on Friday at 85, ...

LONDON – British lawyer and writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, died Friday. He was 85. Mortimer's family said he died early in the morning at his ...

British author and dramatist John Mortimer has died at 85. Mortimer, who combined a career as a lawyer with a prolific literary output, was the creator of Horace Rumpole, the cigar-smoking, ...

(“Rumpole and the Reign of Terror” by John Mortimer, Viking, 184 pages, $23.95). Hilda is secretly writing her memoirs, and the Timson family is in need of legal help again. Which is to say that ...

LONDON — British lawyer and writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, died Friday. He was 85. Mortimer’s family said he died early in the morning at his ...