Rumpole's Last Case

5 best books like Rumpole's Last Case (John Mortimer): Growing Up, Watergate, The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II, A Most Wanted Man, The Prime Minister

Growing Up
AuthorRussell Baker
ISBN0451168380
I found a paperback edition of this book, yellow with age. A note from my mother, age 97 and suffering from dementia fell out from between the pages. She said it was full of charm and humor and recommended it. She was right. Russell Baker had a hardscrabble childhood. His father's people were Virginians;...
AuthorThomas Mallon
ISBN0307378721
From one of our most esteemed historical novelists, a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.
 
For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated—uncountable volumes of committee...
The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II
AuthorEdvard Radzinsky
ISBN0385469624
Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines  sources never before available to create a  fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days.  Updated for the paperback edition..
A Most Wanted Man
AuthorJohn le Carré
ISBN1416594884
"A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa." "Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to...
The Prime Minister
AuthorAnthony Trollope
ISBN0192835327
Despite his mysterious antecedents, an unscrupulous financial speculator, Ferdinand Lopez, aspires to marry into respectability and wealth and join the ranks of British society. One of the nineteenth century's most memorable outsiders, Lopez's story is set against that of the ultimate insider,...
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