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Rumpole at Christmas

Rumpole and the Health Farm Murder
By: John Mortimer
Narrated by: Bill Wallis
Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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Publisher's Summary

'Rumpole and the Health Farm Murder' finds the corpulent barrister spending a most untypical Christmas at a health spa, where he is gloomily trying to survive on a not-so-festive diet of yak's milk and steamed spinach. He is soon enlivened, however, when a murder is committed and he is asked to represent the chief suspect.

Bill Wallis reads this special seasonal story starring Horace Rumpole, scourge of all QCs and friend of the criminal classes.
©2009 John Mortimer (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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