Rumpole Rests His Case (Paperback, New edition)

When your life at the Bar has been as rich as Rumpole’s, the past is best avoided – who knows what might have happened to ex-defendants? Still, it keeps intruding on the present. When Rumpole takes a break in the country, he’s sure he’s met the local squire before. And that pantomime dame at the Tufnell Park Empire seems familiar …

Of course, some things – Pommeroy’s Wine Bar, She Who Must Be Obeyed – never changed anyway. But now for the first time Rumpole appears for an asylum seeker at the Appeals Tribunal, and – horror of horrors – his chambers have become a smoke-free zone. Could it all be too much for Rumpole? Might he have to hang up his wig for good?