A follow-up to Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders finds the curmudgeonly barrister struggling to defend a Pakistani doctor who has been falsely accused of aiding al Qaeda, an effort that is complicated by Rumpole's exacting wife's decision to record her life story. 60,000 first printing.Curmudgeonly barrister Horace Rumpole struggles to defend a Pakistani doctor who has been falsely accused of aiding al-Qaeda, an effort that is complicated by Rumpole's exacting wife's decision to record her life story.