Rumpole at Christmas

A Rumpole Christmas is a collection of five holiday stories never before published in book form depicting the Old Bailey Hack at his lovable best. In Rumpole and Father Christmas, the English barrister encounters a familiar-looking Santa who he thinks is a thief. In Rumpole s Slimmed Down Christmas, he goes to a new-age spa when She who must be obeyed insists that he lose a few pounds. In Rumpole and the Christmas Break, he protects Hilda as a shady judge flirts with her while on a holiday that turns out to be anything but relaxing. In Rumpole of the Bailey s Christmas Party, Rumpole celebrates the holiday with Old Bailey colleagues and Hilda surprises him with an unexpected gift. And in Rumpole and the Old Familiar Faces, he uses a former client s seedy past to aid a church in the name of Christmas spirit.