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A Murder of Quality (George Smiley #2)

John le Carré

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

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Original Title:	A Murder of Quality
ISBN:	0743431685 (ISBN13: 9780743431682)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	George Smiley #2
Characters:	George Smiley, Stella Rode, Stanley Rode, Jane Lyn, Terence Fielding, Charles Hecht, Shane Hecht, Ailsa Brimley, Inspector Rigby, Felix D'Arcy, Samuel Glaston, Dorothy D'Arcy, Mr. Cardew, Tim Perkins
Setting:	Carne, England(United Kingdom)

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John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him -- and his hero, British secret Service Agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, and old friend and editor of a small newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried reader: "I'm not mad. And I know my husbad is trying to kill me." But the letter had arrived too late: it's scribe, the wife of an assistant master at the distinguished Carne School, was already dead. So George Smiley went to Carne to listen, ask questions, and think. And to uncover, layer by layer, the complex network of skeletons and hatreds that comprised that little English institution.

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Title	:	A Murder of Quality (George Smiley #2)
Author	:	John le Carré
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	January 29th 2002 by Scribner (first published 1962)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Spy Thriller. Espionage. Crime

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Started off brilliantly but ended with a whimper, as the ending felt contrived and unrealistic. I think as the author himself put it not bad as a social satire but weak as a thriller. The story starts when a colleague of Smiley contacts him to help with a letter she has received from a reader of the magazine she edits. As Smiley gets more involved all the great ingredients you find in le carre`s book are there - great characters minutely observed, a taste for the depressing england of the post

This is another George Smiley story in the series by an excellent writer. In this book George Smiley who is retired from the British Secret Service, is called by an old friend, Ailsa Brimley of a small newspaper to investigate a troubling letter she received from a worried reader. It claims that her husband will kill her. Smiley goes to this very proper distinguished boys school, Carne School, and finds that he is already too late and that she was dead. Smiley immerses himself with the

[3.5] One of those curious book coincidences that seem to happen more often than they statistically should: here it's a surprising similarity of plot and causation with another crime novel I read overlapping this one - had no idea before starting each book that the topic would be involved in either of them. Fifteen years and the best part of five hundred miles, not to mention the gulf of the post-war British class system separate the stories, but ultimately it came down to the same thing. (view

Just your average murder mystery. The only reason it falls into the realm of espionage is that the main character solving the murder is a former English spy.

I have read and enjoyed the majority of John Le Carrés Smiley novels so I was delighted to find this little gem tucked away in a second-hand bookstore just south of the Canadian border!Set in and around a stately English public school in the depths of a snowy winter, it drips with atmosphere. A tutors rather disreputable wife is murdered and the school has closed ranks. Smiley must employ all his skills to penetrate the cloistered establishment.Expecting a tale of espionage (the cover of my US

3.5/5This is an odd entry in the works of le Carre, chronicling the later life of George Smiley. Following the events of Call for the Dead Smiley, no longer with the service, is living a quiet life in London. He is contacted by an old colleague about the a letter she has received from the wife of one of the masters at a venerable Public School (that is, a very old, expensive and exclusive private school) in Dorset, in which she states the fear that her husband is intending to kill her. (view

This is the second novel featuring George Smiley; the first is, "Call for the Dead". This is unlike most of the Smiley books, in that it is really a classic crime story, much in the style of an Agatha Christie. Set in an exclusive boarding school, Carne School in Dorset, this is obviously something which the author feels strongly about, considering that he spent much of his life from the age of five (so young!) in such institutions, as well as teaching at Eton.In this book, Smiley is contacted