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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 moments of eloquence that make justice seem as simple and desirable as common sense."
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Horace Rumpole visits a snooty restaurant and engages in a battle of wills over his adored mashed spuds, takes the unaccustomed role of prosecutor, and confronts a detective novelist. Reprint. TV tie-in.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Only mildly amusing..., Jul 6 2004

By	Blaine Greenfield "eclectic reader" (Belle Meade, NJ) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Rumpole ala Carte (Audio Cassette)

I've never seen the TV version of RUMPOLE, so when
my local library had the cassette version of RUMPOLE A LA CARTE
by John Mortimer, I grabbed hold of it to see what all the excitement was about.

A LA CARTE features six short stories about Horrace Rumpole,
an eccentric British barrister . . . they were mildly amusing, but none of them leaves me wanting to listen to more and/or go
out of my way to view the program when next on the tube.

Leo McKern's narration, however, was excellent.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Dull and Predictable Stories, Jul 22 2002

By	A. Ross (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Rumpole A La Carte (Paperback)

Despite the fact that I generally enjoy comic British writing, and have on occasion watched the TV version of Rumpole with amusement, I found this collection of short Rumpole stories rather tedious. Having never read any of the extensive Rumpole series, I figured this collection of six stories would be a good place to test the waters. What I found was a series of predictable tales, populated by thin characters that offer little variety in their foibles from story to story. And while you could make the same case for P.G. Wodehouse's creations, the difference is that he had the Midas touch when it came to language and wit, whereas Mortimer's prose is generally uninspired. After a while, the curmudgeonly grumblings of Rumpole get rather old, as does the sharp tongue of his wife (She Who Must Be Obeyed), the pathetic philandering Erskine Brown, and the doddering foolishness of Uncle Tom. While the cut and thrust of the courtroom scenes do impart a sense of vigor and wit to the proceedings, they are the only bright lights in what are otherwise remarkably dull and predictable stories. Perhaps lawyers find Mortimer's prose remarkable, I, on the other hand, do not.

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