From British man of letters Mortimer ( Paradise Postponed ; Rumpole of the Bailey ), this is an early novel, published in England in 1954. It's a delicate tale of a marriage shaken by the death, ...

Mr. Mortimer was a barrister, author, playwright and the creator of Horace Rumpole, the cunning defender of the British criminal classes. By Helen T. Verongos John Mortimer, who died on Friday at 85, ...

Sir John Mortimer, the preternaturally prolific English author who died Friday at 85, created two unforgettable characters: One was the irascible barrister Horace Rumpole; the other was himself.