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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 17 > Rumpole creator John Mortimer dies

Rumpole creator John Mortimer dies

By Jill Lawless / The Bulletin
January 17, 2009

LONDON — British lawyer and writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, died Friday. He was 85.

Mortimer’s family said he died early in the morning at his home in the Chiltern Hills northwest of London, with his wife and children....

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