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A Murder of Quality
John Le Carré
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Description for A Murder of Quality
Paperback. 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. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 197 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
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 novel, le Carré moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly ... Read more
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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141196374
SKU
V9780141196374
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About John Le Carré
John le Carré 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 ... Read more
Reviews for A Murder of Quality
Beautifully elegant, satiric and witty
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