A Murder of Quality
A George Smiley Novel
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4.1 • 284 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies.
"Fielding and Jebedee were dead, Steed-Asprey vanished. Smiley—where was he?"
John le Carré's second novel, A Murder of Quality, offers an exquisite, satirical look at an elite private school as it chronicles the early development of George Smiley.
Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs. Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband—an assistant master at Carne School—is trying to kill her. Reluctant to go to the police, Miss Brimley calls upon her old wartime colleague, George Smiley. Unfortunately, it's too late. Mrs. Rode has just been murdered. As Smiley takes up the investigation, he realizes that in life—as in espionage—nothing is quite what it appears.
Customer Reviews
A Detour for le Carre
A Murder of Quality is an engrossing who-done-it mystery, beautifully written, as we’d expect from le Carre. But it’s a very different book from the author’s espionage novels. The setting is a suffocating English boarding school, as engrossing to read about as is the unraveling of the murder itself.