Mr. Mortimer was a barrister, author, playwright and the creator of Horace Rumpole, the cunning defender of the British criminal classes. By Helen T. Verongos John Mortimer, who died on Friday at 85, ...

Sir John Mortimer (pictured), whose prolific writing career encompassed literary as well as stage and screen works, has died aged 85 after battling a long illness.

At the start of “Rumpole and the Younger Generation,” the first story in this posthumous “best of” collection, Mortimer’s curmudgeonly, Wordsworth-quoting barrister, Horace Rumpole, mentions that ...

Grey Gowrie, a former head of Arts Council England, leads a seminar on crime fiction, an edited version of which is published in the review. Among the participants are Michael Dibdin, author of the ...

At the start of Mortimer’s winning new novella to feature Horace Rumpole (after 2006’s Rumpole and the Reign of Terror), the quirky English barrister agrees to defend 12-year-old Peter Timson, who’s ...

Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC FRSL was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author. Mortimer was a prolific writer for the theatre, films (starting during World War II, when he wrote ...