From British man of letters Mortimer ( Paradise Postponed ; Rumpole of the Bailey ), this is an early novel, published in England in 1954. It's a delicate tale of a marriage shaken by the death, ...

LONDON — British lawyer and writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, died Friday. He was 85. Mortimer’s family said he died early in the morning at his ...

Mr. Mortimer was a barrister, author, playwright and the creator of Horace Rumpole, the cunning defender of the British criminal classes. By Helen T. Verongos John Mortimer, who died on Friday at 85, ...

Sir John Mortimer (pictured), whose prolific writing career encompassed literary as well as stage and screen works, has died aged 85 after battling a long illness.

Mortimer, a retired barrister and creator of Rumpole, retains his high good humor in this third charming autobiographical volume (whose title comes from Byron's Journals), even if, as he confesses at ...

LONDON – British lawyer and writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, died Friday. He was 85. Mortimer's family said he died early in the morning at his ...

Emily Mortimer is to reboot classic British series Rumpole of the Bailey – the legal drama originally created by her father John Mortimer. The Newsroom and Mary Poppins Returns star is in the early ...

Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC FRSL was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author. Mortimer was a prolific writer for the theatre, films (starting during World War II, when he wrote ...