Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE QC (born 21 April 1923) is an English barrister, dramatist and author.

Attributes

John Mortimer is a patron of the Burma Campaign UK, the London based group campaigning for human rights and democracy in Burma.

John Mortimer is the president of the Royal Court Theatre.

Bibliography

Charade, Mortimer's first novel, Bodley Head, London (1947); Viking, New York (1986) ISBN 0670811866

Like Men Betrayed, Collins, London (1953); Viking, New York (1988) ISBN 067081174

The Narrowing Stream, Collins, London (1954); Viking, New York (1989) ISBN 0670819301

Heaven and Hell (including The Fear of Heaven and The Prince of Darkness) (1976)

Rumpole of the Bailey (1978) ISBN 0-14-004670-4

The Trials of Rumpole (1979)

Rumpole's Return (1980)

Regina v Rumpole (1981)

Rumpole for the Defence (1982)

Rumpole's Return (1982)

Clinging To The Wreckage: A Part Of Life, (autobiography) Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London (1982) ISBN 0297780107; Houghton Mifflin, New York (1982) ISBN 0899191339

The First Rumpole Omnibus (omnibus) (1983)

Rumpole And the Golden Thread (1983)

Edwin and Other Plays (1984)

In Character (1984) ISBN 0-14-006389-7

Paradise Postponed (1985) ISBN 0-67-080094-5

Rumpole for the Prosecution (1986)

Rumpole's Last Case (1987)

The Second Rumpole Omnibus (omnibus) (1987)

Rumpole And the Age of Miracles (1988)

Summer's Lease (1988) ISBN 0-14-010573-5

Rumpole And the Age for Retirement (1989)

Rumpole a La Carte (1990)

Titmuss Regained (1990)

Great Law And Order Stories (1990)

The Rapstone Chronicles (omnibus) (1991)

Rumpole On Trial (1992)

Dunster (1992) ISBN 0-670-84060-2

Thou Shalt Not Kill: Father Brown, Father Dowling And Other Ecclesiastical Sleuths (1992) (with G K Chesterton, Ralph McInerny)

The Oxford Book of Villains (1992)

The Best of Rumpole: A Personal Choice (1993)

Under the Hammer (1994)

Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life (autobiography), Viking, London (1994); Viking, NY (1995) ISBN 0670849022

Rumpole And the Angel of Death (1995)

Rumpole And the Younger Generation (1995)

Felix in the Underworld (1996)

The Third Rumpole Omnibus (omnibus) (1997)

The Sound of Trumpets (1998)

The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998)

The Summer of a Dormouse: A Year of Growing Old Disgracefully (autobiography), Viking Penguin, London (2000) ISBN 0670891061; Viking Press, New York (2001) ISBN 0670899860

Rumpole Rests His Case (2001)

Rumpole And the Primrose Path (2002)

The Brancusi Trial (2003)

Where There's a Will (autobiography), Viking, London (2003) ISBN 0670913650; Viking, New York (2005) ISBN 0670034096

Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders (2004)

Quite Honestly (2005) ISBN 0-670-03483-5

The Scales of Justice (2005)

Rumpole and the Reign of Terror (2006)

The Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole (2007)