Here Rumpole relives some of his life as RAF ground staff during the war and falls slightly in love with his client and her lifestyle. The other story in this first book which to my mind shows the best of Rumpole himself is 'Rumpole and the Alternative Society'. From there on the chronology of the later stories can be a little hit and miss but the stories themselves are never less than entertaining. In this story we learn that Rumpole is sixty eight and still a practicing barrister though he is writing his memoirs and looking back on his chequered career. 'Rumpole of the Bailey' was the first of the Rumpole books and contains a couple of the most iconic stories 'Rumpole and the Younger Generation' in which one of the younger members of the Timson family (that famous family of South London villains)is in the dock for a crime that maybe he didn't commit. The first two consist of six short stories each and the third is a novel though it does contain more than one case. This omnibus contains 'Rumpole of the Baily', 'The Trials of Rumpole' and 'Rumpole's Return'. Even when you know what happens the stories are still good reading and I often notice little things that I missed on previous readings. I have been a fan of Horace Rumpole for many years and I re-read the books on a regular basis.
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