The Collected Stories of Rumpole by John Mortimer is £1.99 at Kindle UK right now. This is a Penguin Modern Classics collection and some of the comments mention that it doesn't contain ALL of the Rumpole stories. But it does have about 20 of them, and if you want to see a list (I'm not going to type out 20 titles
), you can check out the sample - the table of contents is on about the third or fourth page of the sample.
Kindle UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ADNP2S4
Kindle UK/Smile:
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ADNP2S4
Spoiler:
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Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome She Who Must Be Obeyed.
These collected stories, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time, are a definitive introduction to one of the wisest and wittiest characters in British comic writing and a reminder of what justice should really be about. With a new introduction by Sam Leith, former literary editor of the Daily Telegraph and contributor to the Evening Standard, Guardian and Spectator.
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