This is the sensational full-length Rumpole novel that at last relates the oft-mentioned but never revealed story of Rumpole’s first case, the Penge Bungalow affair.
Looking back half a century into a very different world, Rumpole recalls a man accused of murdering his father and his father’s friend with a pistol taken from a dead German pilot.
It was this trial and its outcome that put Rumpole on the map and shaped him into the cantankerous defender of justice that readers know and love.