This just in from the Associated Press;
LONDON -- British writer John Mortimer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, has died at 85.
Mortimer's literary representatives, United Agents, announced the death today.
Mortimer combined a career as a lawyer with a prolific literary output that included screen and stage plays and radio dramas. Among his most famous creations was Horace Rumpole, the wine-loving barrister who appeared in a TV series and a series of novels and stories.
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