Rumpole of the Bailey (book series) years after the 1993 anthology. (The book also contains the first few pages written by Mortimer for a new story titled "Rumpole and the Brave New World" that he was working on at the time of his death and thus was incomplete.) A collection of seven Christmas-themed short stories – some first published in US or UK magazines Rumpole of the Bailey (book series) Rumpole of the Bailey is a series of book created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer based on the television series "Rumpole of the Bailey". Mortimer adapted his television scripts into a
William Frederick Bailey William Frederick Bailey William Frederick Bailey CB PC (9 February 1857 – 16 April 1917), was an Irish lawyer and writer. Bailey was born in Castletown, Conyers, County Limerick, Ireland. He was educated in Trinity College, Dublin, and called to the Irish Bar in 1881. He practised on the Munster Circuit and was Barrington lecturer in Political Economy TCD and Extern in English for the Intermediate Education Board. Bailey was one of the Secretaries to the Royal Commission on Irish Published Works (1880), Legal Assistant to the Commissioners under the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act 1885 and Secretary to the