Rumpole and the Angel of Death
Viking (0 670 86451 X) £15.99 See Review
Six new
tales of the Wordsworth loving, cigar-smoking, irrepressible pillar of the British legal
system, Horace Rumpole. And for the very first time, Hilda, She Who Must Be
Obeyed, tells a story all of her own. Past praise for the Rumpole series:
"Rumpole is simply one of the greatest fictional characters of modern English literature" Marcel Berlins Sunday Times
"A Rumpole adventure is the nearest thing I know to the Wodehousian perfection of the Jeeves stories, from which they are lineally descended" Richard Last Daily Telegraph
"One of the great comic creations of modern times" Christopher Matthew Evening Standard
"I thank Heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole" Clive James
"Rumpole is worthy to join the great gallery of English oddballs ranging from Pickwick to Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves and Bertie Wooster" J W Lambert Sunday Times
"The best mock heroic fatty since Falstaff." Alan Coren
