
A Murder of Quality
George Smiley, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Simon Vance
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By:
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John Le Carré
About this listen
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 murdered, and Brimley asks Smiley to venture to the small town of Carne, home of the elite Carne School where Rode's husband is a public school junior master. Once there, he sets about peeling back the layers of pretense and artifice that cloak both town and institution, and discovers that there's more to Rode’s murder than a simple crime of passion.
John le Carré’s second novel finds George Smiley in a classic whodunnit-style mystery. Trading the international intrigue of the Circus for the small village of Carne, A Murder of Quality is a deft examination of another uniquely British institution: the elite public school.
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Narrator’s accents annoying.
- By Laura Belk on 01-21-25
By: John Le Carré
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Other George Smiley Stories
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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Call for the Dead (Abridged): George Smiley had liked the man and now the man was dead. But why? Fennan was dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn’t go on. Smiley decides to investigate – only to uncover a murderous conspiracy with its roots in his own secret wartime past. A Murder of Quality (Abridged): Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband is trying to kill her.
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PerfectStoryteller with Perfect Narrator
- By Steve on 07-02-22
By: John le Carré
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The Naïve and Sentimental Lover
- By: John Le Carré
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
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Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, beguiling artist and Helen, his alluring and dazzling wife.
By: John Le Carré
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A Delicate Truth
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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A counter-terrorist operation, code-named Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: To capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: An ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister’s personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Three years later, a disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead.
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I haven't enjoyed a tale this much in many listens
- By connie on 05-10-13
By: John le Carré
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The Pigeon Tunnel
- Stories from My Life
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels.
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A Global Literary Treasure
- By Darwin8u on 09-16-16
By: John le Carré
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Karla's Choice
- A John le Carré Novel
- By: Nick Harkaway
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale, Nick Harkaway
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West’s spy war against the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only for a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumor that George Smiley might almost be happy. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Szusanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead.
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More Smiley
- By Robert F. on 10-31-24
By: Nick Harkaway
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Absolute Friends
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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By chance and not by choice, Ted Mundy, eternal striver, failed writer, and expatriate son of a British Army officer, used to be a spy. But that was in the good old Cold War days when a cinder-block wall divided Berlin and the enemy was easy to recognize.
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Save Time and Listen. Don't read
- By Cyrus on 02-04-04
By: John le Carré
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Single & Single
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
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A lawyer from the London finance house of Single & Single is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children's magician is asked by his bank to explain the unsolicited arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust. A freighter bound for Liverpool is boarded by Russian coast guards in the Black Sea. The celebrated London merchant venturer "Tiger" Single disappears into thin air.
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The spy who came back to the bank
- By Darwin8u on 03-12-14
By: John le Carré
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The Constant Gardener
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
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Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive.
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Greatest love story of the last fifty years
- By Darwin8u on 06-30-13
By: John le Carré
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Silverview
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Toby Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.
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Le Carré's SILVERVIEW brings him and us back home
- By Close Listener on 10-14-21
By: John le Carré
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Agent Running in the Field
- A Novel
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.
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Who writes “unlistenable etc. “
- By Thomas on 11-02-19
By: John le Carré
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- Backto505
- 04-19-25
Great mystery
Wonderful narrator, intriguing plot, great characters. I love that George Smiley is a pure detective here!
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- Montclair 65
- 12-12-24
George Smiley the Detective
Excellent narration by Simon Vance of John LeCarre's murder mystery with George Smiley as an unassuming character in the story who solves the murder. It is reminiscent of a P. D. James mystery.
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- Peter W. Kalnin
- 12-08-24
Smiley Lives On
Smiley Lives On / Early Smiley at School
This gives us a glimpse of George Smiley's school days, and the background that gives rise to the future man he will become.
Excellent narration by Michael Jayston.
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- K. Lange
- 03-18-25
Old Story, New Teller
Getting to like Simon Vance for the Smiley stories. This is another murder mystery not even dressed up as a spy story. But Quiet pensive George Smiley has his bit to do along with all the others.
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- carol
- 10-04-24
Skillful narrating!
Narrator’s amazing way of voicing characters in the story! Few narrators are as skilled as Vance
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- gary kuch
- 02-12-25
exceptional narrator
the narrator kept this book flowing and captured all of Smiley's nuances well. I will listen to anything Vance narrates.
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- AMR
- 01-03-25
Meh
Not my favorite Smiley mystery. These early short ones never quite do the trick for me.
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- Silenced Majority
- 01-04-25
Decent
A bit out of the ordinary for Smiley fans. Not as good as most other Smiley books. I'm glad Le Carre stayed away from murder mysteries and kept to espionage for most of the Smiley books.
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