Thirteen tales featuring beloved barrister Horace Rumpole who rose to enduring fame on Blood and Typewriters, told the pregnant Portia of the Chambers it would come out in the end, advised Guthrie Featherstone, Q.C., to adopt a more judicial attitude, and returned in the tender gloaming of each evening-via Pommeroy's and a glass of Chateau Fleet Street-to She Who Must Be Obeyed.