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RUMPOLE AND THE PRIMROSE PATH by JOHN MORTIMER
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SummaryWith Rumpole Rests His Case, legions of fans welcomed back
the curmudgeonly London barrister they had savored for
years. In Rumpole and the Primrose Path's six new stories,
Horace Rumpole, despite a heart attack that left him at
death's door in the previous volume, deftly parries
everything from the admonitions of his wife, Hilda, to the
vagaries of his legal colleagues and their new director of
marketing, Luci-with her cell phone, corporate jargon, and
glossy brochures, hired to give their chambers a new image. The title story finds him in a very dubious convalescent
home battling a thin-lipped head nurse and befriending a
junior one, Dotty. Though the death of an elderly patient
is shrouded in secrecy, it is not until Rumpole is back in
chambers that he learns of police suspicions-and of the
murder charge against which he must defend young Dotty.
Presuming Rumpole is soon to expire, Luci has been planning
his memorial service, but the witty and irreverent Rumpole,
sharp as ever, is far from hanging up his wig!
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