John Mortimer. Rumpole a la Carte (1990) Another delicious serving of Rumpole. These stories attract because they give one hope that justice, despite all attempts by the machinery of the law to frustrate the purpose, will be done. The neat puzzles and nicely done satires of hypocritical respectability don’t hurt. The tales may be farce, but they are gentle farce. Rumpole knows we’re all sinners, and he knows further that sin is the natural state of man- and womankind. Only our capacity to forgive each other redeems us. *** (2005)
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