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Product Details
Scribner, January 2002
Trade Paperback, 160 pages
ISBN-10: 0743431685
ISBN-13: 9780743431682
Description
John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international esionage 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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Browse Inside A Murder of QualityDaily Telegraph (U.K.) Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty.
Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) Vastly entertaining.
Mail Online UK, July 16, 2011
...intelligence as 'ineffectual', his sideline was anything but. His first three books - Call For The Dead, A Murder Of Quality and the grim, glacial study in human weakness that was The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - were published between ...
Associated Content, June 25, 2009
... John Le Carre is an English author better known for his writings about spy and war. A murder of quality is one of his earlier works. A murder of quality ...
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