A Murder of Quality by John le Carre #literature at once beautiful and terrible

at once beautiful and terrible

and distinguishing between 'lookalike' species

a trouser-wearing local who runs a ladies' motorcycle (and

Felix Kersten was a plump Finnish pleasure-seeker who became Heinrich Himmler's indispensable personal masseur - Himmler calling him his 'magic Buddha'

The book’s great achievement is in the storytelling — the unfolding drama

A Murder of Quality by John le Carre #literature at once beautiful and terribleStella 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.