A Murder of Quality

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Call Number: CD Radio Le Carre Murder Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 3rd Floor, CDs 2-week checkout	CD Radio Le Carre Murder Oversize	2-week checkout	On Shelf

"Digitally Mastered"--Container.
Compact disc.
A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring Simon Russell Beale.
George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, an old friend and editor of a small newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried reader: "I'm not mad. And I know my husband is trying to kill me." But the letter had arrived too late: its scribe, the wife of an assistant master at the distinguished Carne School, was already dead. So George Smiley went to Carne to listen, ask questions, and think. And to uncover, layer by layer, the complex network of skeletons and hatreds that comprised that little English institution.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

very good dramatization submitted by camelsamba on August 3, 2017, 9:01pm A review I saw elsewhere says: "Le Carre's first book was not so much a spy novel as a detective story with spies in it, and his second book is even less a spy novel: it is a detective story with George Smiley in it." Completely true. Since I enjoy mysteries as well as espionage, I didn't mind that departure. I first listened to the unabridged version of the book, and then I listened to this dramatization. I was impressed at how they condensed much of the narrative aspects into dialogue. It is very well done. A few aspects got condensed right out but they did not detract from overall story.