Murder of Quality by John Le Carre

Murder of Quality by John Le Carre

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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. George Smiley went there to listen, take sherry, ask questions and think.

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Murder of Quality by John Le Carre

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.
John le Carre was born in 1931 and was educated at the universities of Bern and Oxford. He has written seventeen highly-acclaimed novels. John le Carre lives in Cornwall.
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ISBN 13 9780340766477
ISBN 10 0340766476
Title Murder of Quality
Author John Le Carre
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Year published 2000-07-20
Number of pages 176
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