Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 26/05/2011
ISBN: 9780141196374
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 11mm x 129mm
Weight: 145g
RRP: £9.99
A murder mystery in the finest tradition of English detective novels, John le Carré's A Murder of Quality is an ingenious puzzle featuring his best-loved character George Smiley.
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.
If you enjoyed A Murder of Quality, you might like le Carré's Call for the Dead, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty'
Daily Telegraph
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 26/05/2011
ISBN: 9780141196374
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 11mm x 129mm
Weight: 145g
RRP: £9.99