A Murder of Quality (The Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection) - Hardcover

Le Carré, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241337127 ISBN 13: 9780241337127

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2019

Synopsis

John le Carré's second novel is an ingenious puzzle featuring his best-loved character George Smiley. Now available in a collector's hardback edition.

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.

THE SECOND GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL

'Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty' Daily Telegraph

About this title

Review:

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 was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0241337127
• ISBN 13: 9780241337127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192