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caddyman ([personal profile] caddyman) wrote2008-07-25 01:18 pm

Free Books

The free book in today's Times is Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer.

It has taken me all week to realise - and this is for the benefit probably, of [livejournal.com profile] keith_london, get the paper from a supermarket rather than a newsagent. The promotion seems to be working better there than in other outlets.

Right; I'm going to get a coffee, a sandwich and do the sudoku before washing up.

[identity profile] mezzogiornouno.livejournal.com 2008-07-25 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Rumpole, in every other Rumpole story, tells anyone prepared to listen that his first success as a junior was the Penge Bungalow Murders, in which he appeared for the defence "alone and without a leader", though never gives any other detail. The book which you got free today is a recent addition to the Rumpole stories, written by Mortimer in response to numerous requests over the years to put some flesh on the bones of the case.

[identity profile] caddyman.livejournal.com 2008-07-25 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, I see.

Never read any Rumpole, see, so didn't understand the reference at all!