A Murder of Quality: Classic British Mystery Novel by John le Carré - Perfect for Book Clubs & Mystery Lovers" （注：根据您提供的原始标题"A Murder of Quality"，这似乎是John le Carré的经典悬疑小说。优化后的标题包含了： 1. 作者名增加权威性 2. 明确书籍类型（英国悬疑/经典小说） 3. 使用场景：适合读书俱乐部和悬疑爱好者 4. 保持核心关键词"A Murder of Quality"在开头 5. 符合英文标题规范）

Author: le Carre, John

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 26 May 2011 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Modern Classics' series.

Paperback / softback | 192 pages
136 x 197 x 11 | 146g

Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. Smiley knows that Stella feared her husband would murder her, but as he probes further beneath Carne's respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. In his second novel, le Carr¨¦ moves outside the world of espionage to

reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English

institution. The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery, with George Smiley as master detective.

THE SECOND GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL'Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty' Daily Telegraph