Rumpole And the Penge Bungalow Murders (2010)
Rumpole And the Penge Bungalow Murders
“And I’ve made up my mind. No matter what you tell me!’ We had gone down from the courtroom level and passed the old door of Newgate Prison, with names carved on it by long-gone customers on their way to the gallows. We had seen the screws consuming doorstepsized sandwiches and gone into the small interview room to which they brought our client. As he sat down, he asked Bonny Bernard for ‘one of those Capstan full-strengths’. He was no longer listless and silenced by terror. It was then he said ...something extraordinary. ‘I want Mr Rumpole to do my case.’ ‘Have you really thought about it? It won’t look good in the eyes of the Lord Chief, not good at all.’ It was Barnsley Gough who said it, and then our client replied in the words I’ve quoted at the start of this chapter.
‘But Mr Rumpole is doing your case, Jerold.’ Hilda’s daddy started off in the appeasing voice of a lawyer trying to reach an agreement, a way out which would satisfy everyone. ‘He is helping me, as I said, by taking a careful note, and of course we shall discuss your case together.MoreLess
‘But Mr Rumpole is doing your case, Jerold.’ Hilda’s daddy started off in the appeasing voice of a lawyer trying to reach an agreement, a way out which would satisfy everyone. ‘He is helping me, as I said, by taking a careful note, and of course we shall discuss your case together.MoreLess
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