A Murder of Quality
by John le Carré
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Author: John le CarréForeword: Otto Penzler
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-10-01
ISBN: 0802714420
Number of pages: 152
Publisher: Walker & Company
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Book Review: Dated and not very good
Summary: 2 Stars
This is one of the first Le Carre books to feature George Smiley and it's not very good. Our short dumpy unassuming hero is called in (unofficially) to help when the wife of a teacher at a cold unfriendly English boarding school is murdered. The first third of the book relates in great and tedious detail how some people in England are the right people because they went to the right schools and universities and dress up properly for dinner. Then there are the other sort of people, the ones who didn't go to the right schools, and will therefore never quite be trusted with the top jobs or looked upon as equals. There's also a lot of rambling about who attends which church and what this says about their character. Unless you have a huge interest in the British class system as it existed in the early 1960s, this is a huge waste of time for the reader. I only persevered because I wanted to see how it ended. The second two thirds of the book is as well written as you'd expect, but the plot only ever becomes marginally interesting. One to skip.
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