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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 Murder of Quality: Directed by Gavin Millar. With Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson, Billie Whitelaw. Taken from the book by John le Carré, George Smiley rallies to the aid of his former intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley, to investigate a mysterious letter from a junior master's wife at Carne School, a boy's school.
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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 · "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.
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A Murder of Quality isn't considered one of his best anyway; at first I thought the narrative pretty good, though the dialogue between schoolboys was hopelessly expository. Then I read William McIlvanney's Laidlaw which brought a whole different order of depth and style to crime writing, and after that returned to this, whence it seemed ...
A Murder of Quality 1991 1h 30m Mystery & Thriller List Reviews 28% Audience Score 250+ Ratings A detective (Denholm Elliott) comes out of retirement to investigate a mysterious death at a ...
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