A Murder of Quality
$34.83
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
20 August 2019
Summary
A hardback series for le Carre collectors
Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School – firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doyleys 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. As Smiley probes further beneath Carne’s respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion.
In his second George Smiley novel, le…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241337127 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241337127 |
| Author: | John le Carré |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 20 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 19mm |
| Series: | The Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection |
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A book of rare and great power
A book of rare and great power * Financial Times *
A devastating and tragic record of human, not glamour, spies * New York Herald Tribune *
About The Author
John le Carré
John le Carre was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, 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 Carre 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 12 December 2020.
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