A Murder of Quality: A George Smiley Novel

John le Carré

Sep 2012 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Michael Jayston

About this audiobook

 

"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.

Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs. Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband—an assistant master at Carne School—is trying to kill her. Reluctant to go to the police, Miss Brimley calls upon her old wartime colleague, George Smiley. Unfortunately, it's too late. Mrs. Rode has just been murdered. As Smiley takes up the investigation, he realizes that in life—as in espionage—nothing is quite what it appears.

About the author

John le Carré was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Bern and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, his third book, secured him a worldwide reputation. He divides his time between England and the Continent.

Michael Jayston is an English actor, born in 1935. He has appeared in film and on television in many Shakespearian roles, as well as in Doctor Who, EastEnders, and the televised serial Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He is the narrator for all of John le Carré’s audiobook novels.