A Murder of Quality by John Le Carré
George Smiley was simply doing a favour for an old friend, Miss Ailsa Brimley, who edited a small religious newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried woman reader: 'I'm not mad. And I know my husband is trying to kill me.' The writer of the letter was one Stella Rode, wife to an assistant master at Carne School, Dorset, and by the time it arrived, she was dead. Carne was an ancient, self-regarding Church foundation, proud of its proper standards of social distinctions. George Smiley went there to listen, take sherry, ask questions and think. And thus uncover, layer upon layer, the complexities, skeletons and hatreds that comprised this little English institution.
'Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty' -- Daily Telegraph 'Vastly entertaining' -- Sunday Telegraph 'For my money, le Carre is the equal of any novelist now writing in English' -- Guardian
John le Carre was born in 1931. He attended the universities of Bern and Oxford and later taught at Eton. He spent five years in the British Foreign Service.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340937563 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340937564 |
| Title | A Murder of Quality |
| Author | John Le Carr |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2006-09-21 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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