Rumpole's Return.

JOHN MORTIMER

Publication: The Armchair Detective Library, 1992, New York

First U. S. hardcover edition. Originally printed in the U. S. as a paperback book by Penguin in 1980. Limited to 100 numbered copies and signed by the author. This is copy 12. Fine, unread copy without dust jacket, as issued. Housed in a matching cloth slipcase. Rumpole, having faced a number of defeats at the Old Bailey, finally decides to throw in the towel and retire with his wife, Hilda, to Florida. They are enjoying the warm weather when Tiffany Jones, a young professor at the university, disappears. Directly thereafter, Rumpole reads in a London newspaper, sent by friends, that a struggling young accountant has been arrested for the gory murder of a wealthy aristocrat in a London "tube" station. A message written in blood is found beside his body. Rumpole cannot resist the lure of returning to London to work on the case. Rumpole soon discovers that the two cases are related ..... both prove to have been interested in a cult, Children of the Sun.

Inventory Number: 49654