John Mortimer
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ASBOs may be the pride and joy of New Labour, but they don't cut much ice with Horace Rumpole. Not that Hilda agrees, of course, but she's too busy co
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mpleting her memoirs to dissuade him from taking an interest when one of the Timson children is given an ASBO for playing football in the street. And pretty soon Rumpole realises that something fishy is going on. Why are the residents pursuing their vendetta against the Timson boy quite so strongly? Could they have a sinister reason for not wanting him on their street.
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