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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 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 George Smiley as master detective.

THE SECOND GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL

'Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty' Daily Telegraph

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26 May 2011
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192 pages
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Beautifully elegant, satiric and witty ― Telegraph

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John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020.

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Publisher : Penguin UK (26 May 2011)
Language : English
Paperback : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 0141196378
ISBN-13 : 978-0141196374
Item Weight : 145 g
Dimensions : 19.8 x 1.1 x 12.9 cm
Country of Origin : United Kingdom

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Gopinathan T

Rather Confusing

Reviewed in India on 17 December 2020

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While surprises are all in order in thrillers, the final surprise of making Stella somebody so different was more than a bit unconvincing. The author's focus seems to have been on social commentary as he mentions in the afterword.

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U. K. NagaRaju.

John Le Carre' is unparalleled.

Reviewed in India on 14 February 2021

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It is not possible to derate John le carre', whatever may be the Novel by him. He never disappointed me. I have full collection of All his novels. They can be read again and again!

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Rajarshi Roy

A No Nonsense Murder thriller

Reviewed in India on 2 January 2020

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Out and out murder thriller, old school love triangle sort of a thing. Those looking for a Cold War reference would be disappointed. A nice Christmas read, to say the least, a bit shallow in parts, moves too fast at times for comfort.

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Interesting

Reviewed in India on 14 July 2020

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An excellent book.

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Yolo762

Five Stars

Reviewed in India on 17 July 2018

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A very exciting read

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Four Stars

Reviewed in India on 23 November 2015

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Good read from Le Carre

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Aseem Sinha

Three Stars

Reviewed in India on 28 April 2016

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Give it a miss and you aint gonna lose anything in the series.

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Loco Poco

Damn clever thriller

Reviewed in India on 29 January 2018

Today there are so many thrillers since almost everybody seem to be writing thrillers. So you have to be damn good stand out from this crowd. This book is the second installment of the Smiley Series but it has nothing to do with the Cambridge Circus and its agents.
It's more of a probe into Smiley's character as he plays a detective as a favour for a friend.
You can skip it and you'll lose no substantial information when the series as a whole is considered.
But this is a damn good novel and really quick to read. So I didn't see any reason to miss it.

P. S. The thing that I found interesting here has actually nothing to do with the Smiley series but with Game of Thrones. GRR Martin has directly borrowed without modifications a few terms from this book which made crucial GoT stuff, for eg. The Long Nights, & ...they were called crows b/c they dressed in black... and a few other things.

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P. G. Harris

Detective George Smiley

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 November 2017

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This is the second of John Le Carre's Smiley novels, and like the first, Call for the Dead is interesting both in itself as a story, and for the picture of an emerging novelist.

In this, Le Carre seems to be exploring a different course for Smiley's and hence his own career. Here Smiley has left the Circus, and is encouraged by a magazine editor, and old acquaintance, to look into a cry for help from a reader. Things take a fatal turn and Smiley finds himself looking into a murder in the claustrophobic, political and arcane world of an English public school.

This is a straightforward detective novel, with no element of espionage in it, and Le Carre seems to be establishing Smiley as an English Poirot, ready to launch into a series of novels.

As with the previous book, Le Carre is experimenting with characters, in particular the magazine editor has elements of being a prototype for Connie Sachs.

Also of interest is the strong social and political tone of the work, a common thread throughout Le Carre's career. Both in the story itself, and in an afterword, this is an absolutely vicious attack on the English public school system, both for its cruelty to those within it, and for its corrosive impact on society. Like Orwell attacking the excesses of the Stalinist left, this has the feel of an insider biting the hand which beat him.

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Graham of Watton

Getting into his stride

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 June 2018

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Written in the early 1960's, 'A Murder of Quality' is the second John le Carré book in which the main character is ex-British intelligence officer George Smiley. Having left the world of spying towards the end of 'Call For the Dead', the first book in the series, it's another 'who-dunnit', in which the Smiley cleverly solves a brutal murder at a boys' public school. Stella Rode, the wife of one of the teachers at the school is savagely beaten to death and suspicion initially falls on a local mad woman who she had got to know through her charitable work. Mrs Rode is an outsider - looked down upon by the other wives at the school for being northern, non-conformist and middle-class. But who would hate her enough to kill her?
In 'A Murder of Quality' le Carré is getting into his stride in developing the character of Smiley. It's also an unmissable opportunity for him to pour out his feelings of loathing and disgust towards the public school system of the time and in which he had suffered as a boy. It's brief, and not as thrilling as the later books in the series, but is nevertheless an enjoyable read.

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An early work by a modern master.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 September 2020

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John le Carre is best known for his spy stories but this, his second published novel, although involving Smiley, is a murder mystery with shades of Agatha Christie. The public school setting is reminiscent of a late Poirot story, although in that case it is a girl's school, but the writing, of course shows far more literary skill than Christie's. Its characters, like Christie 's express the snobbish attitudes of the period, but unlike Christie, who is expressing her own prejudices, le Carre, as he makes clear in his Afterwords, is surprising these class prejudices. Not a Smiley classic but still a good read.

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Alistair

Before JlC really got into his stride

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 August 2017

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I love John le Carré's work as a rule, but hadn't read these early books. This one's not bad, but I don't think it would be down as a Penguin Classic if it weren't for its value in providing a context for his later works.

A Murder of Quality is a fairly standard crime thriller set in a public school. What turns out to be much more interesting than the book itself is le Carré's two afterwords written in the 1990s and early 2000s, which give his strongly held opinions on the public and grammar school systems. I got the kindle version on offer for 99p; it's certainly worth it at this price.

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Interesting plot, different from the rest of the series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 June 2020

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One wonders why Le Carre wrote this and how it relates to the rest of the spy series. It could probably be read as stand alone book and follows Smiley's investigation of a murder of a women married to one of the teachers at a prestigious school. Whilst this is a good murder mystery and could be read in a day (very short), it lacks the same espionage intrigue as the rest of the stories and seems to bridge the gap between Smiley's retirement and his return to the Circus. There are some amusing character studies in this and comparisons between classes which are interesting. You could probably miss this out and still understand the following books.

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