The Best of Rumpole - Rumpole Author:John Mortimer Here are seven stories--selected by and with an introduction by the author--featuring Horace Rumpole, star of the popular PBS television series "Rumpole of the Bailey." — Rumpole is everyone's favorite defense barrister: he is a fearless tamer of judges who is kept in order only by She Who Must Be Obeyed. A rumbustious defender of t... more »he faith, Rumpole is known, not surprisingly, as something of a character. His exploits at the Old Baily - and elsewhere - are an unsurpassable blend of eloquence, wit, cynicism, and experience. The corpulent "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" is joined by a winning cast in tales that deftly send up the British legal system with their wry humor and sparkling wit.« less