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A Murder of Quality

George Smiley #2 / 10
by John Le Carré
A Murder of Quality (George Smiley #2) by John Le Carré
★ 7.50 / 2
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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 "I'm not mad. And I know my husbad is trying to kill me." But the letter had arrived too 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.

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Release date: 1962

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John Le Carré

John Le Carré

John le Carré was born in Poole, Dorset in England on 19 October, 1931. He went to Sherborne School and, later, studied German literature for one year at University of Bern. Later, he went to Lincoln College, Oxford and graduated in Modern Languages. From 1956 to 1958, he taught at Eton and from 1959 to 1964, he was a member of the British Foreign Service as second secretary at British Embassy in Bonn, and then, as Politician Consul in Hamburg. His first novel was written in 1961 and, by the time of his death in December 2020, he had published nearly 30. His books took many prizes, and inspired numerous films.- IMDb mini biography by: Flávio S. Armony

George Smiley

George Smiley consists of ten books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Call for the Dead (George Smiley #1)
★ 7.50 / 2
A Murder of Quality (George Smiley #2)
★ 7.50 / 2
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (George Smiley #3)
★ 7.34 / 3
The Looking Glass War (George Smiley #4)
★ 7.34 / 3
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley #5)
★ 7.34 / 3
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley #6)
★ 8.50 / 2
Smiley's People (George Smiley #7)
★ 8.50 / 2
The Secret Pilgrim (George Smiley #8)
★ 8.50 / 2
A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley #9)
★ 8.00 / 2
Karla's Choice (George Smiley #10)
★ 7.00 / 2


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