A MURDER OF QUALITY
Before Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, George Smiley investigated a very different kind of enemy.
Not a Soviet mole. Not an intelligence network.
A murder at an elite English school.
In John le Carré’s A Murder of Quality, Stella Rode fears that her husband intends to kill her. She sends a desperate warning to the editor of a small Christian magazine—and soon she is dead.
The trail leads George Smiley to Carne: an ancient, prestigious school with its own hierarchy, traditions, prejudices and very definite ideas about who is—and is not—the “right sort.”
But what happens when an institution devoted…
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