This time the judge debunking barrister at law is embroiled with a minister accused of shoplifting, an actress accused of murder, and a racist candidate for Parliament, with art theft and mistaken identity thrown in for good measure. 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 by Frederick Davidson 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. This is the Audiobook Cassette Library Edition in vinyl case. These six stories include: 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. In this first title of the popular series featuring Rumpole, all of the major characters who occupy the Rumpole stories make their introductions: the sneaky, slightly effeminate Erskine Brown, the bumbling Guthrie Featherstone and various and sundry other lawyers and clerks whose lives weave in and out of these stories. He is not a particularly gifted attorney, nor is he particularly fond of the law by courts if it comes to that, but he’d rather be swinging at a case than bowing to his wife Hilda, She Who Must Be Obeyed. Horace Rumpole, the irreverent, iconoclastic, claret swilling, poetry spouting barrister at law, is among the most beloved characters of English crime literature.

These six short stories introduce all the lovable or not so lovable characters from the delightful Rumpole series.

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