We're looking for a stranger, six feet tall wearing boots size 10 1/2, leather gloves and an old blue overcoat stained with blood, Inspector Rigby said. a man who travels on foot, who was in the area on the night of the murder, taking with him one and a half feet of coaxial cable, a string of beads, and an imitation diamond clip. We're looking for a maniac, a man who kills for pleasure or the price of a meal-and who can fly fifty feet throught the air. -from the book
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We're looking for a stranger, six feet tall wearing boots size 10 1/2, leather gloves and an old blue overcoat stained with blood, Inspector Rigby said. a man who travels on foot, who was in the area on the night of the murder, taking with him one and a half feet of coaxial cable, a string of beads, and an imitation diamond clip. We're looking for a maniac, a man who kills for pleasure or the price of a meal-and who can fly fifty feet throught the air. -from the book
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Add this copy of A Murder of Quality to cart. $48.09, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Media Books Llc.
This book seemed like a mood piece; I felt as if I were in a boy's school town. Although the book took place sometime after World War II, things have probably not changed much in school towns in a hundred years.
The small town is at odds with the school; the folks at the school follow Church of England while the townsfolk are all Chapel. The murdered woman didn't really fit in; she was the only person from the school who went to Chapel.
George Smiley, the retired spy, is given an entry into the town by grace of his friendship with the brother of one of the school dons. The police can't get a word out of the school folks (they are a closed society) and the police are glad to have Smiley do some gentle snooping for them.
Le Carre weaves a delightfully devious plot, with twists and turns aplenty. Watch a master of the genre at work. Enjoy.
George Smiley Series
A Call for the Dead (1961) *A Murder of Quality (1962)
