Ebooks Free Download | A Murder of Quality | A Murder of Quality to anyone who wants to get into John le Carre, intent on reading his bigger, better and later works. I can say this because this is the first of his books I've read, and can easily see him shaping his style and point of view. Though it is occasionally intriguing, A Murder of Quality is not a great read. Le Carre seems to be trying to figure out how to fuse a complex plot with descriptive characterizations and a larger social commentary. All are sometimes apparent, but on the whole it is a stepping stone type of experience. I do look forward to reading his more taught, deeper books.
This slim book is John Le Carré's second novel while working as a British diplomat in Bonn and Bern and/or elsewhere in a roving capacity, and again it stars George Smiley (GS). He was Le Carré's hero in his debut Call for the Dead, which described him as being an accomplished and committed spy since 1928, who survived a frightful and nasty war in Germany, and who is now (early 1960s) as before, wearing glasses, short, pudgy, and badly, but expensively dressed. He is also separated from his aristocratic wife Ann, and some of the characters in this book let him know that they know.
This book is not about espionage, but about a murder at Carne, a centuries' old public school. Miss Brimley, a WW-II colleague of GS in wartime intelligence, who has turned editor of a religion-based periodical, contacts GS when she receives a letter from the wife of one of Carne's teachers, whose family has for generations subscribed to the journal. She claimed in her letter that her teacher-husband is planning to kill her... When she is found dead days later, Miss Brimley contacts GS and pleads with him to find out the truth. GS, still in retirement following the dramatic outcome of his first appearance in Le Carré's debut novel, agrees and starts to investigate.
This slim book is John Le Carré's second novel while working as a British diplomat in Bonn and Bern and/or elsewhere in a roving capacity, and again it stars George Smiley (GS). He was Le Carré's hero in his debut Call for the Dead, which described him as being an accomplished and committed spy since 1928, who survived a frightful and nasty war in Germany, and who is now (early 1960s) as before, wearing glasses, short, pudgy, and badly, but expensively dressed. He is also separated from his aristocratic wife Ann, and some of the characters in this book let him know that they know.
This book is not about espionage, but about a murder at Carne, a centuries' old public school. Miss Brimley, a WW-II colleague of GS in wartime intelligence, who has turned editor of a religion-based periodical, contacts GS when she receives a letter from the wife of one of Carne's teachers, whose family has for generations subscribed to the journal. She claimed in her letter that her teacher-husband is planning to kill her... When she is found dead days later, Miss Brimley contacts GS and pleads with him to find out the truth. GS, still in retirement following the dramatic outcome of his first appearance in Le Carré's debut novel, agrees and starts to investigate.
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