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A Murder of Quality is the second novel by John le Carré, published in 1962. It features George Smiley , the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in his only book set outside the espionage community.
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Oct 13, 1991 · A TV movie based on John le Carré's novel, starring Denholm Elliott as George Smiley, who investigates a murder at a boys school. The IMDb page has cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, and more.
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A Murder of Quality. (film) A Murder of Quality is a 1991 television film directed by Gavin Millar and a screenplay written by John le Carré, based on his 1962 novel A Murder of Quality , [1] first screened on 10 April 1991 on ITV in the United Kingdom and shown in the United States of America on 13 October 1991 on the A&E network .
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Oct 2, 2012 · 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.
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'A Murder of Quality' is the second in the George Smiley series and is a straightforward murder mystery set in a private boy’s school which makes it an anomaly given the other books are set in the world of espionage and spying. I suspect it is also something of a footnote when compared with the more famous and celebrated books that came in ...
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About A Murder of Quality. From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. “Fielding and Jebedee were dead, Steed-Asprey vanished. Smiley—where was he?” John le Carré’s second novel, A Murder of Quality, offers an exquisite, satirical look at an elite private school as it chronicles the early development of George Smiley.
Books. A Murder of Quality. John Le Carré. Bantam Books, 1983 - Fiction - 151 pages. George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, an old friend and editor of a small newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried reader: "I'm not mad. And I know my husband is trying to kill me."
