Mr. Mortimer was a barrister, author, playwright and the creator of Horace Rumpole, the cunning defender of the British criminal classes. By Helen T. Verongos John Mortimer, who died on Friday at 85, ...

LONDON — British lawyer and writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, died Friday. He was 85. Mortimer’s family said he died early in the morning at his ...

WASHINGTON — John Mortimer, a British lawyer and writer who created the character Horace Rumpole, a disheveled barrister memorably featured in the popular television series “Rumpole of the Bailey,” ...

British lawyer and writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, died Friday near London. He was 85. Mortimer combined a career as a lawyer with a large ...

Viking. 191 pp. $24.95 The astonishingly productive John Mortimer -- the "By the Same Author" page in "The Summer of a Dormouse" lists more than three dozen books by or edited by him -- is now near ...

‘The law supposes,” says Brownlow, the attorney, to the hapless Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist, “that your wife acts under your direction.” Please take a breath before scrutinizing Mr. Bumble’s response: ...

EVERY true-born Englishman knows that the law is an ass. Rules are better honoured in the breach than the observance. Judges are best represented in a chorus line at the D'Oyly Carte. The English ...

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