<p><i>Summer''s Lease</i> - the classic, international bestselling novel by John Mortimer<br><br>''Amusing, entertaining ... and a cracking good read'' <i>Sunday Express</i><br><br>''And summer''s lease hath all too short a date'' - <i>Sonnet 18</i>, William Shakespeare<br><br>It''s high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the lives of the absent owners - and things start to go horribly wrong ... <br><br>''With a cosy fluency of wit, Mortimer charms us into his urbane tangle of clues'' <i>Mail on Sunday</i><br><br><i>Summer''s Lease, </i>which was made into popular BBC TV mini-series starring John Gielgud, is a delightful novel from Rumpole author John Mortimer: witty, compassionate, humane, perfectly plotted and wonderfully readable. It will be adored by readers of P.G Wodehouse and P.D. James.<br> Sir