name: John Mortimer
birth_date: 1923-04-21 00:00:00
death_date: 2009-01-16 00:00:00
genres: Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Mystery & Thrillers
avg_rating: 4.01
ratings_count: 32965
about: John Clifford Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and former practising barrister. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole stories and a trilogy of political novels, Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets, featuring Leslie Titmuss - a character as brilliant as Rumpole. John Mortimer received a knighthood for his services to the arts in 1998.Series:Rumpole of the BaileyRapstone Chronicles