Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders

About this book

Horace Rumpole - cigar-smoking claret-drinking Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients - often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. Now for the first time the sensational story of the Penge Bungalow Murders case is told in full: how shortly after the war Rumpole took on the seemingly impossible task of defending young Simon Jerold accused of murdering his father and his fathers friend with a German officers gun. And how the inexperienced young brief was left alone to pursue the path of justice in a case that was to echo through the Bailey for years to come.