A Murder of Quality (Audible Audio Edition) John le Carré Michael Jayston Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Books
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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.
A Murder of Quality (Audible Audio Edition) John le Carré Michael Jayston Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Books
A Murder of Quality is excellent. I had a hard time with Le Carre's first Smiley novel, "A Call for the Dead." Now in reading "A Murder of Quality" I can see that I either need to go back and re-read "Dead," or consider that it was a weak start for Le Carre. "A Murder of Quality" sucks you right in and takes you along excellently.A lot of info is in the mixmaster near the end and that can be confusing. But as noted above, "we're just gettin' started" with Smiley on what we know will be a successful adventure over time. Le Carre's writing lights up your brain cinematically (which is also said of Graham Greene). The description of a tea tray just about anywhere in the literature of Great Britain is unparalleled on this earth. President-elect Trump may take Americans wherever he will on this forthcoming four (4) year adventure, but there will always be an England (Great Britain).
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A Murder of Quality (Audible Audio Edition) John le Carré Michael Jayston Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Books Reviews
"A Murder of Quality" was spy fiction writer John LeCarre's very decent second novel, first published in 1962. It features his classic literary creation, British spymaster George Smiley, in a one-off murder mystery, at a very old and very private school.
As the story opens, George Smiley is retired from the Secret Intelligence Service over events that occured in "Call for the Dead". He gets a request for help from a wartime colleague, a Miss Ailsa Brimley, who runs a small newspaper and who gets a letter from a female subscriber predicting her own murder. By the time Smiley gets involved, the woman, the wife of an instructor at Carne, is already dead, brutally murdered in her own house. Police suspicion falls on a mentally disturbed woman, but Smiley runs his own investigation, just slightly off the books, and discovers a school torn by petty jealousies and a few truly dangerous secrets.
The murder mystery is intricately if self-consciously plotted; the solution is perhaps not obvious until late in the story. LeCarre uses the novel to flesh out the charcter of George Smiley, and to work in some harsh social satire against English private schools. "A Murder of Quality" is highly recommended to fans of John LeCarre's novels.
This is a classic "whodunit". Along the way, there is a mini-study of the ways, manners, and prejudices of the small world at a British private school of a certain time. Some readers might find the ending a bit too much of a conventional "set piece". However, it seems highly consistent with the characters and circumstances. Not the author's best, perhaps, but well written, interesting, and highly entertaining.
George Smiley, formerly of the British Secret Intelligence Service, now fidgeting in unhappy retirement, gets a call from a wartime colleague. Miss Ailsa Brimley runs a small newspaper; one of her subscribers has sent a letter predicting her own murder. On the heels of the letter comes news that the woman in question has been brutally murdered at Carne, a very old and very private school. Who else should take the puzzling case but a former spymaster?
Such is the premise of "A Murder of Quality", John LeCarre's very decent second novel, first published in 1962. Smiley, who has connections at Carne, undertakes a private investigation with the tacit approval of the local police, who suspect a local mentally disturbed woman. Smiley's investigation leads him deep into the plotting, petty politics, and jealousies of the school staff, where he finds many suspects and more than a few lies.
The murder mystery is carefully plotted; the solution may not be obvious until late in the novel. LeCarre works in some harsh satire on private schools, but the real fun may be watching him fill out the character of the non-heroic Smiley, who would go on to feature in several of LeCarre's hard-edged but excellent espionage novels. "A Murder of Quality" is highly recommended to fans of LeCarre and of George Smiley.
Le Carre's books are always interesting to read. He has a very human way of relating to his characters and that translates into his writing. You feel empathy and compassion even for the evil-doers, and outliers he describes. And he does a great job from the detective angle too. Too bad there aren't more writers like him! people who are left out, and suffer.
I have found these early le Carre novels to be, in my opinion, excellent reading. They have a momentum which is lacking in his more lenghty tomes. Whilst reading the Night Manager I have managed to sneak in the first and second of Le Carre's novels.
Recently, I learned that John le Carre had a final novel in which George Smiley was going to spear. I thought before reading it, I should fully enter into the world of George Smiley and read le Carre's earlier novels. "A Murder of Quality" is one of le Carre's early novels and is one of his lesser works. It is a fun book and it is a pleasure to learn more about Smiley's early life. I would recommend it only to "completionists " like myself.
I am a great fan of the George Smiley series - some of the best cold war espionage novels around. A Murder of Quality, however, is a departure from espionage into "who-done-it?" In my view, not exceptional in that genre, but offering added interest because of the way Smiley's character (and a few of his colleagues/friends) is further fleshed out in this different context.
A Murder of Quality is excellent. I had a hard time with Le Carre's first Smiley novel, "A Call for the Dead." Now in reading "A Murder of Quality" I can see that I either need to go back and re-read "Dead," or consider that it was a weak start for Le Carre. "A Murder of Quality" sucks you right in and takes you along excellently.
A lot of info is in the mixmaster near the end and that can be confusing. But as noted above, "we're just gettin' started" with Smiley on what we know will be a successful adventure over time. Le Carre's writing lights up your brain cinematically (which is also said of Graham Greene). The description of a tea tray just about anywhere in the literature of Great Britain is unparalleled on this earth. President-elect Trump may take Americans wherever he will on this forthcoming four (4) year adventure, but there will always be an England (Great Britain).
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