A Murder of Quality (George Smiley Series) - Penguin Modern Classics by John le Carré

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They were always in mourning at Carne; the small boys because they must stay and the big boys because they must leave, the masters because respectability was underpaid; and now, as the Lent Half (as the Easter term was called) drew to its end, the cloud of gloom was as firmly settled as ever over the grey towers of Carne.

Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered.

George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. Smiley knows that Stella feared her husband would murder her, but as he probes further beneath Carne's respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion.

In his second George Smiley novel, le Carré moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English institution. The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery, with Smiley as master detective.

 ‘Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty.’ Daily Telegraph

Book Details

Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
192
ISBN:
9780141196374
Published:
26 May 2011
Weight:
146g
Dimensions:
136 x 197 x 11 (mm)
Language:
English

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