{"product_id":"collected-stories-of-rumpole","title":"Collected Stories Of Rumpole By Mortimer, John","description":"\u003cp\u003eHorace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction''s best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome She Who Must Be Obeyed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese collected stories, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time, are a definitive introduction to one of the wisest and wittiest characters in British comic writing and a reminder of what justice should really be about. With a new introduction by Sam Leith, former literary editor of the \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e and contributor to the \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57549209174398,"sku":"NW9780141198293","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141198293.jpg?v=1783274837","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/collected-stories-of-rumpole","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}