A Murder of Quality

Informationen zum Autor John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the University of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5 & 6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead , in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold , secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People . At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel , was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies , appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020. His posthumous novel, Silverview, was published in 2021. Klappentext John le Carr¿/b>was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall. Zusammenfassung 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.

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Beautifully elegant, satiric and witty Telegraph

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John le Carré, John Le Carre, John le Carré
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 26.05.2011
• EAN: 9780141196374
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119637-4
• Seiten: 192
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Serien: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Ein Smiley-Roman
• Themen: Belletristik > Spannung; Belletristik > Spannung > Krimis, Thriller, Spionage; England, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Crime and mystery fiction