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A Murder of quality

George Smiley, the mild-mannered investigator, looks into the murder of a school master's wife. Before she died, the victim forecast her own murder at the hand of her husband.

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  • "Media Books presents A murder of quality"

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  • "An unabridged reading by Michael Jayston of John le Carré's second Smiley novel. George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess "the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin". This novel, set in the early 1960s, sees him investigating a murder in a public school..."
  • "George Smiley was simply doing a favour for an old friend, Miss Alisa Brimley. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried woman reader: "I'm not mad. And I know my husband is trying to kill me." By the time the letter arrived the writer was dead. George Smiley uncovers, layer upon layer, the complexities and hatreds in a small English Church foundation."
  • "Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband, an assistant master at Carne School, is trying to kill her. Reluctant to go to the police, Miss Brimley calls upon her old wartime colleague, George Smiley. Unfortunately, it's too late. Mrs Rode has just been murdered. As Smiley takes up the investigation, he realises that in life, as in espionage, nothing is quite what it appears. His investigation raises a multitude of questions. Who could have hated Stella Rode enough to kill her? Why was her dog put down shortly before the murder? And what did Mad Janie see on that fatal night? To discover the truth, Smiley must lift the lid on a world of hidden passions and dangerous hatreds."
  • "George Smiley, the mild-mannered investigator, looks into the murder of a school master's wife. Before she died, the victim forecast her own murder at the hand of her husband."@en
  • ""Ex-undercover agent George Smiley emerges from retirement to solve a baffling, bloody crime. This time it is not a Cold War spy that he is hunting but the solution to the brutal murder of a harmless housewife in the seemingly peaceful setting of a prestigious British boys' school. It is there, at Carne School, where he becomes entangled with a woman as dangerous as she is charming and with a tottering, brilliant man haunted by a perverse secret of his past. Smiley pursues the murderer amid the hollow pomp and ceremony of the school's establishment, where a man's fate is decided over tea and a sentence of death can be passed out with biscuits and sherry"--Container."@en
  • ""We're looking for a stranger, six feet tall, wearing boots size 10-1/2, leather gloves and an old blue overcoat stained with blood," Inspector Rigby said. "A man who travels on foot, who was in the area on the night of the murder, taking with him one-and-a-half feet of coaxial cable, a string of beads, and an imitation diamond clip. We're looking for a maniac, a man who kills for pleasure or the price of a meal-and who can fly 50 feet through the air."@en
  • ""We're looking for a stranger, six feet tall, wearing boots size 10-1/2, leather gloves and an old blue overcoat stained with blood," Inspector Rigby said. "A man who travels on foot, who was in the area on the night of the murder, taking with him one-and-a-half feet of coaxial cable, a string of beads, and an imitation diamond clip. We're looking for a maniac, a man who kills for pleasure or the price of a meal-and who can fly 50 feet through the air."
  • "George Smiley, retired from the world of spies and treachery, is summoned by an old friend to help with a small problem: a murder."@en
  • "George Smiley, the cleverest and most self-effacing man in Security, investiages a murder in one of England's leading public schools -- a murder which was forecast by the victim."@en
  • "George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, an 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 husband is trying to kill me." But the letter had arrived too late: its 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."@en
  • "George Smiley, the cleverest and most self-effacing man in British intelligence investigates a murder in one of England's leading public schools - a murder that was forecast by the victim."
  • "Carne School kept itself carefully apart from the small Dorset town it dominated and it prided itself upon keeping the proper standards. But something terrible had happened in this enclosed world. Murder had been done and the victim was the wife of a junior master. So Smiley is brought in by his friend to clear up the matter discreetly."@en
  • "Carne School, Britain's most prestigious public school, is the scene of a grisly murder. Although not connected to the official investigation, George Smiley begins to pursue the case. With a clandestine lead and incomparable insight into the human psyche, George starts to uncover an unspeakable truth."@en
  • "Set in the early 1960s, when the wife of one of the masters at a public school is found bludgeoned to death, Smiley, out of loyalty to an old friend, agrees to look into the case. But his investigation raises a multitude of questions. Who could have hated Stella Rode enough to kill her? Why was her dog put down shortly before the murder? And what did Mad Janie see on that fatal night? To discover the truth, Smiley must lift the lid on a world of hidden passions and dangerous hatreds."
  • "A retired undercover agent, a charming but dangerous woman, and an aging intellectual are drawn together by murder among England's upper crust."
  • "A retired undercover agent, a charming but dangerous woman, and an aging intellectual are drawn together by murder among England's upper crust."@en
  • "George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'. Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband, an assistant master at Carne School, is trying to kill her. Reluctant to go to the police, Miss Brimley calls upon her old wartime colleague, George Smiley. Unfortunately, it's too late. Mrs Rode has just been murdered. As Smiley takes up the investigation, he realises that in life, as in espionage, nothing is quite what it appears. His investigation raises a multitude of questions. Who could have hated Stella Rode enough to kill her? Why was her dog put down shortly before the murder? And what did Mad Janie see on that fatal night? To discover the truth, Smiley must lift the lid on a world of hidden passions and dangerous hatreds."
  • "George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'. Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband, an assistant master at Carne School, is trying to kill her. Reluctant to go to the police, Miss Brimley calls upon her old wartime colleague, George Smiley. Unfortunately, it's too late. Mrs Rode has just been murdered. As Smiley takes up the investigation, he realises that in life, as in espionage, nothing is quite what it appears. His investigation raises a multitude of questions. Who could have hated Stella Rode enough to kill her? Why was her dog put down shortly before the murder? And what did Mad Janie see on that fatal night? To discover the truth, Smiley must lift the lid on a world of hidden passions and dangerous hatreds."@en
  • "Ex-undercover agent George Smiley emerges from retirement to solve a baffling, bloody crime. This time it is not a Cold War spy that he is hunting but the solution to the brutal murder of a harmless housewife in the seemingly peaceful setting of a prestigious British boys' school. It is there, at Carne School, where he becomes entangled with a woman as dangerous as she is charming and with a tottering, brilliant man haunted by a perverse secret of his past. Smiley pursues the murderer amid the hollow pomp and ceremony of the school's establishment, where a man's fate is decided over tea and a sentence of death can be passed out with biscuits and sherry."
  • "Ex-undercover agent George Smiley emerges from retirement to solve a baffling, bloody crime. This time it is not a Cold War spy that he is hunting but the solution to the brutal murder of a harmless housewife in the seemingly peaceful setting of a prestigious British boys' school. It is there, at Carne School, where he becomes entangled with a woman as dangerous as she is charming and with a tottering, brilliant man haunted by a perverse secret of his past. Smiley pursues the murderer amid the hollow pomp and ceremony of the school's establishment, where a man's fate is decided over tea and a sentence of death can be passed out with biscuits and sherry."@en
  • "George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess ?the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin?. Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband - an assistant master at Carne School - is trying to kill her. Reluctant to go to the police, Miss Brimley calls upon her old wartime colleague, George Smiley. Unfortunately, it's too late. Mrs Rode has just been murdered. As Smiley takes up the investigation, he realises that in life - as in espionage - nothing is quite what it appears. His investigation raises a multitude of questions. Who could have hated Stella Rode enough to kill her? Why was her dog put down shortly before the murder? And what did Mad Janie see on that fatal night? To discover the truth, Smiley must lift the lid on a world of hidden passions and dangerous hatreds ..."
  • "George Smiley, retired from the world of spies and treachery, is summoned by an old friend to help with a small problem: at the exclusive school where Smiley's friend teaches it seems there's been a murder. Frightfully embarrassing, of course. Perhaps George could quietly look into the matter? Once more, Smiley is up to his elbows in spies and treachery, of a different sort.--"@en
  • "George Smiley, retired from the world of spies and treachery, is summoned by an old friend to help with a small problem: at the exclusive school where Smiley's friend teaches it seems there's been a murder. Frightfully embarrassing, of course. Perhaps George could quietly look into the matter? Once more, Smiley is up to his elbows in spies and treachery, of a different sort."
  • "George Smiley, retired from the world of spies and treachery, is summoned by an old friend to help with a small problem: at the exclusive school where Smiley's friend teaches it seems there's been a murder. Frightfully embarrassing, of course. Perhaps George could quietly look into the matter? Once more, Smiley is up to his elbows in spies and treachery, of a different sort."@en

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