A defender of justice with a cantankerous attitude.įans of the novel found that this story gained much mythology over the years. The trial that followed and the outcome are what put him on the map as a lawyer. Horace recalls a man that had been accused of killing his father and the friend his father had with a dead German pilot’s pistol. Rumpole narrates the tale after fifty years have passed, which was a different world then. The Penge Bungalow case, a case that has been mentioned many times throughout the series, but never revealed. The novel is written as though it is a memoirs of Horace Rumpole. This was an original novel, and finally gives readers a look at the first case he ever worked.

“Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders” is the first novel in the “Rumpole” series and was released in the year 2004. Then he would start his day at Old Bailey. He would wake up at half past five in the morning to write the scripts. While writing the series, John Mortimer still worked as a barrister. In the stories (both on the screen and the page), Horace Rumpole has to deal with whatever case he is working on and the relationships that he has with both his family and his friends. Hilda, who is known as She Who Must Be Obeyed, often terrifies Horace. He would rather be around the crooks that he defends rather than be around other attorneys. Horace cracks wise and is insulting, but he still does have morals. No matter what, he does not seem to age in the books, and certain things from Rumpole’s back story are thrown out or altered to better fit him still being in his seventies. Rumpole is around the age of seventy in all of the books. He defends all kinds of clients, usually they are underdogs in some way.

Horace is an old man who works as a barrister in London.

It aired in 1975, and serves as a pilot for the later series. The series started in the year 1978, and was inspired by the “Rumpole of the Bailey” production that was a stand alone work. The episodes were written by John Mortimer (who is a barrister), as were the stories and novels. Although, there have been some novels that were written only as novels. The stories are adapted from the episodes and the novels are adapted from different movies. Later on, the early episodes were adapted into stories and novels. The series about Horace Rumpole was originally a television series that aired in Britain. Rumpole at Christmas / A Rumpole Christmas The Anti-Social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole / Rumpole Misbehaves

Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer