Picks and Pans Review: The Best of Rumpole

UPDATED 12/20/1993 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 12/20/1993 at 01:00 AM EST

by John Mortimer

This selection of seven stories that made Mortimer laugh when he wrote them includes "Rumpole à la Carte," with the bibulous and bardic old curmudgeon at his fractious best demanding steak-and-kidney pudding in a temple of nouvelle cuisine. Scrumptious. (Viking, $21)