My editor, a good and wise man, suggested that for Christmas Day we might seek kinder, gentler fare than the serial killers, ax murderers and insane cannibals who often populate these reviews. He even ...

Ever since first appearing in Englishman John Mortimer's mysteries, Rumpole of the Bailey has made asides referring to the Penge Bungalow Murders, a court case from very early in his career, in which ...