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A Murder of Quality: A George Smiley Novel

Name: A Murder of Quality: A George Smiley Novel
Brand: Penguin Books
SKU: 9780143122586
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Contributors:

John Le CarrÃ©

Publisher:

Penguin Books

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Fiction

Book Subcategory:

Mystery & Detective, Thrillers, Literary

Book Topic:

Traditional, Espionage

Audience:

Young Adult

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Release Date:

2012-10-02

ISBN 13:

9780143122586

Weight:

0.35 lbs

Size:

8.10 x 5.40 x 0.50 inches

Pages:

176

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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.

About the Author
John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a con man, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on December 12, 2020.

A Murder of Quality: A George Smiley Novel

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