Rumpole and the Locked Lavatory | A Cozy Old Bailey Mystery

Описание: Rumpole and the Locked Lavatory | A Cozy Old Bailey Mystery

In the middle of a respectable chambers dinner at Three Equity Court, a pompous property solicitor is found dead in a robing-room lavatory — and the terrified cleaner, Alfie Munday, is charged with manslaughter.
Rumpole refuses the easy way out. With cheap claret, a faulty latch, a neglected maintenance log, and a pathologist’s quiet truth, he takes the fight to the Old Bailey and exposes the most dangerous weapon of all: penny-pinching respectability. Set in late twentieth-century London, this is a lost-style Rumpole case full of dry wit, courtroom turns, and humane justice.

00:00:00 The Dinner Before the Fall
00:11:33 The Caution and the Mop
00:22:19 The Brass Latch
00:33:45 Bail in a Bad Smell
00:44:23 The Men Who Never Slip
00:55:04 The Crown's Neat Little Tale
01:07:22 The Science of a Slip
01:18:00 The No Case Whisper
01:28:53 The Thread and the Threshold
01:38:46 Verdict at the Door

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