A Murder of Quality by John le Carre

THE SECOND GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School firstly by being the wrong sort with her doyleys and china ducks and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley 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 Carnes respectable veneer he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. In his second novel le Carre moves outside the world of espionage Paperback softback