Title: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
First published: 2004
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John Mortimer's 'Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders' sees our eponymous hero tackle his first-ever case. It is just after the war and two RAF heroes are found shot dead. Simon Jerold, the son of one of the victims, is the only suspect and young Rumpole is given the hopeless task of defending him. But Rumpole is determined to save his client from the gallows and make a name for himself. His bid to do so opens the first chapter in the story of the law's finest comic creation.

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Subjects: Crime fiction, Mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Lawyers, Legal stories, Penguin Crime, Solicitors, Attorney and client, Horace Rumpole (Fictitious character), Fiction, Courtroom fiction, Barristers, Trials (Murder), Crime, Rumpole, Horace (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Attorney and client -- Fiction, Trials (Murder) -- Fiction, London (England) -- Fiction, Lawyers, fiction, Rumpole, horace (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, legal, Large type books, London (england), fiction
Places: London (England), England, London
People: Horace Rumpole
Time periods: Post WW2