Rumpole of the Bailey by John Clifford Mortimer *Online Library »PDF

Editorial : ''Rumpole is one of the immortals of mystery fiction.'' --San Francisco Chronicle on the Rumpole stories

''Mortimer has created one of the legendary fictional detectives a barrister who's as much a detective as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot.'' --Boston Sunday Globe

''I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole.'' --Observer (London)

''Rumpole is worthy to join the great gallery of English oddballs ranging from Pickwick to Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves, and Bertie Wooster.'' --Sunday Times (London)

''First-rate comic writing In the fluidity and panache of his prose, his combination of high intelligence and low foolery, John Mortimery is worthy of camparison to P. G. Wodehouse.'' --New York Times Book Review