Rumpole and the Primrose Path.
by MORTIMER**, JOHN:
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- ISBN 10
- 0670913669
- ISBN 13
- 9780670913664
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Tony Healey,illustrated dw/dj,with black+git lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Security tag/chip still in situ internally to dw/dj's inner, rear flap.Top+fore-edges though ubiquitously toned are bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark green endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-211pp [paginated] includes 6 stories,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,Shakespeare extracts (2),contents list/table,verso of last page also unpaginated,and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book.
When the light suddenly faded for Rumpole during the Mandela Buildings case at the Old Bailey,and he found himself coming to consciousness in hospital with his chest still crunching with pain,it seemed that the great advocate's days in Court were over.Certainly his colleagues at Chambers thought so. Why else were they already planning his memorial service? Even Rumpole himself,usually as irrepressible as any East End villain,felt his spirits lowered: Primrose Path Home began to seem more like a hospice than a nursing home. Then something about the place began to puzzle him,and with the help of Luci Gribble,Soapy Sam Ballard's recent appointment as Director of Marketing and Administration at Chambers and an unlikely ally of Rumpole,a great scam was revealed and an innocent and friendly nurse cleared of a serious charge.It was enough to put a spring back into the step of even the most world-weary lawyer.Solving the mystery of the Primrose Path Home proves to be the first of a collection of new cases,as Rumpole defies the Jeremiahs and returns triumphantly to defend the innocent - and the not-so- innocent. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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Synopsis
With Rumpole Rests His Case , legions of fans welcomed back the curmudgeonly London barrister they had loved for years?and they are eager for more. The six new stories in Rumpole and the Primrose Path find Horace Rumpole?despite a heart attack that left him at death?s door in the previous volume?deftly parrying 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, glossy brochures, and plans to give their chambers a new image, Luci presumes Rumpole is soon to expire, and 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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- Title
- Rumpole and the Primrose Path.
- Author
- MORTIMER**, JOHN:
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- Fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670913669
- ISBN 13
- 9780670913664
- Publisher
- LONDON.PENGUIN/VIKING,2002.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2002
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