By John Mortimer, Viking, New York, 161 pages, $ 21.95

The perils of posthumous publishing are prevalent and predictable. For every late author’s “Confederacy of Dunces,” there is a dreary “Silmarillion”; for every “Northanger Abbey,” something like Steinbeck’s “King Arthur and His Noble Knights.” Rare indeed is the secret writer like Emily Dickinson, whose best work was published after death.

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