John Clifford Mortimer, Author Viking Books $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-670-81930-0
From British man of letters Mortimer ( Paradise Postponed ; Rumpole of the Bailey ), this is an early novel, published in England in 1954. It's a delicate tale of a marriage shaken by the death, possibly murder, of a young woman, Molly, whom the...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Viking Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-87861-1
Simply because England's political tides have turned from Tory Thatcherism to Blairite New Labour does not mean that Mortimer's Machiavellian Leslie Titmuss will be any less entertainingly scheming than in Paradise Postponed or Titmuss Regained....
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Viking Books $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-86451-5
After a two-year break, the indomitable barrister Horace Rumpole returns in six sprightly new capers, including one told by his long-suffering wife Hilda, who proves to be every bit as canny as her crafty curmudgeon of a husband. As always, Mortimer
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Viking Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-84902-4
British novelist and playwright Mortimer (Paradise Postponed) begins this second volume of his autobiography at the point when he left his career as a barrister in the 1960s and was appointed to the position of Queen's Counsel. In entertaining and...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Penguin Books $10.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-023270-7
Mortimer has written an impressive and sharply drawn study of friendship and conflicted loyalties among three men in contemporary England. (Jan.)
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Viking Books $21 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-84059-5
In an impressive performance, Mortimer ( Paradise Postponed ) presents a drama of ideas that is also an acute psychological study of different kinds of friendship. Philip Progmire, an Oxford-educated accountant with thespian dreams, has engaged in...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Viking Books $21 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-84459-3
Public TV has made a huge audience familiar with Mortimer's rumpled and irritable English barrister, and this book of Rumpole yarns is very much the sort of mixture Mortimer has prospered with before. The legal knowledge is keen but lightly worn,...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-14-014421-5
The life of a faithful wife and mother is unsettled after a mysterious man implicates her husband in a young woman's murder. PW suggested that this early novel, ``though elegantly written, proves ultimately understated and tenuous rather than...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Viking Books $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-82333-8
The bestselling Paradise Postponed has been well and truly equaled with this hilarous sequel by the British author and barrister who has also given us the Rumpole books. Politician Leslie Titmuss is faced with a dilemma that pits personal interest...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Penguin Books $12.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-014921-0
British politician Leslie Titmuss finds himself at an impasse between personal interest and political beliefs when his home turf, Rapstone Valley, is proposed as the site of a huge development . This comedy of manners features several characters...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Viking Books $16.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-81187-8
Available in the U.S. for the first time, Mortimer's powerful novel won raves when it was published 35 years ago in England. Different from the author's better known work ( Rumpole of the Bailey , etc.), this story dramatizes the generation gap,...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-010573-5
Bossily capable Molly Pargeter--devoted to Italian Renaissance art and amateur sleuthing--drags her reluctant family to a Tuscan villa. ``Although the momentum falters slightly midway, Mortimer's seemingly effortless command of his craft makes this...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Viking Books $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-81984-3
Waughesque without the malice but no less clear-eyed for its good humor, Mortimer's comic vision extends beyond the English settings of Rumpole and Paradise Postponed to a Tuscany domesticated into a backdrop for British holiday-makers and other...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Viking $23.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-670-89986-9
Mortimer, a retired barrister and creator of Rumpole, retains his high good humor in this third charming autobiographical volume (whose title comes from Byron's Journals), even if, as he confesses at the start, he's reached an age when he...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Viking Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80094-0
Why does Simeon Simcox, ""left-wing cleric'' of an English village, leave the Simcox brewery millions to the morally loathsome Leslie ``The Toad'' Titmuss, city developer and Conservative cabinet minister? Simeon's sonsFred, the jazz-drumming doctor,
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Viking Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-86079-1
Neither a Rumpole story nor one of Mortimer's broader canvases (like Paradise Postponed or Dunster), this is a neat murder mystery with literary (or at least publishing) overtones and an endearing central character. He is Felix Morsom, a British...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Penguin Books $14 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-024800-5
The second volume of British novelist and former barrister Mortimer's autobiography tells of his days as Queen's Counsel and reminisces about his friendships with the likes of John Gielgud and Harold Pinter. (Mar.)
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Penguin Books $10 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-017510-3
A collection of stories about the courtroom antics of disheveled barrister Horace Rumpole. (Dec.)
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Penguin Books $12 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-015609-6
These six tales of judiciary retribution find barrister Horace Rumpole in a pretentious nouvelle cuisine establishment and on a bleak modern university campus. According to PW , this collection ``abounds with wit, familiar eccentrics and those...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author Penguin Books $8.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-14-009268-4
``Available in the U.S. for the first time, Mortimer's powerful novel won raves when it was published more than 35 years ago in England. Different from the author's better-known work ( Rumpole of the Bailey , etc.), this story dramatizes the...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author . Viking $24.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-670-03483-3
The indomitable Mortimer (Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
, etc.) is back with a new cast of quixotic characters. Lucinda Purefoy (Lucy), daughter of a liberal Anglican bishop and his gin-soaked wife, graduates from university with a...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author . Viking $24.95 (238p) ISBN 978-0-670-03409-3
Best known as the creator of Horace Rumpole (Rumpole Rests His Case
, etc.), Mortimer delivers much sound advice and liberal opinion, supported by apt literary allusions (from Shakespeare to Wodehouse) and by amusing anecdotes drawn from his dual...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author . Viking $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-03356-0
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 ago. Simon Jerold stands accused of shooting...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author . Viking $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-03146-7
In Rumpole's last outing, Rumpole Rests His Case
(2002), Mortimer's beloved barrister suffered a near-fatal heart attack, but as shown in this delicious new story collection, Rumpole still has plenty of life left, despite the preparations...
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John Clifford Mortimer, Author . Viking $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-03139-9
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 familiar cheroot-puffing, claret-quaff
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