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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies.
"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.
"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
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From "an accomplished veteran" of crime fiction, a murder mystery set in Victorian London featuring a female sleuth and her detective husband (Kirkus Reviews).
As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one Saturday night in late October 1867, the fog that swirls around him is like a living beast. By the time it has lifted next morning a woman lies murdered in Green Park. Allegra Benedict was the beautiful Italian wife of an art dealer...
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Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty - Daily Telegraph
For Alisa Brimley, editor of the small magazine Christian Voice, receiving a letter from a longtime subscriber might otherwise be a perfectly normal occasion-except Stella Rode, the reader in question, writes that her husband is planning to kill her. Brimley calls upon an old wartime friend to help her investigate: retired Circus spy, George Smiley.
Before Smiley can begin, Rode is found...
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A&E Home Video
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[2004]
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George Smiley goes to the aid of his former colleague, Ailsa Brimley after she receives a letter from a woman predicting her own murder and naming her husband as the killer. After the woman is found dead, they uncover secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy.
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Walker
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[1964]
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English
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Call for the dead - George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy—which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he concluded that the affable Samuel Fennan had nothing to hide. Why, then, did the man from the Foreign Office shoot himself in the head only hours later? Or did he?
A murder of quality - Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs. Stella...
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©2010
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"In late October 1867 Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks home across Waterloo Bridge and the fog swirls around him like a living beast. Reports that 'the River Wraith' has been terrorising young women on nights such as these give Ben cause for concern. And rightly so. By the time the fog has lifted a woman lies murdered in Green Park. Allegra Benedict was the beautiful Italian wife of a renowned art dealer. But why had she travelled to London...
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Jet de Plaza and Janés volume 99/7
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Plaza & Janés
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1988
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Español
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