![]() ![]() At a restaurant we go to near our home in England, the owner saw a newspaper headline, ‘Rumpole Dies’, and for days she spoke in hushed and, I’m relieved to say, regretful tones about my unfortunate death.” ![]() Mortimer writes, “He was an actor who magnificently portrayed a character I’d written, Rumpole, the claret-swigging, small-cigar-smoking, fearless upholder of our great legal principles, trial by your peers, the presumption of innocence and the rule that the police shouldn’t invent more of the evidence than is strictly necessary. So I was amused when I read in Mortimer’s part memoir, part collection of essays, Where There’s a Will, about an incident that occurred after the death of Leo McKern. Sir John Mortimer wrote novels, plays, and several volumes of autobiography, but the Rumpole of the Bailey stories are my favorites. ![]()
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