In 1960, British author John le Carré, whose real name is David John Moore Cornwell, resumed his intelligence career with the Foreign Service. During this time he began writing novels, the first entitled Call for the Dead. Two years later he resigned from the Foreign Service to devote himself entirely to writing. He achieved international fame as the author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author. Several of his books have been adapted for film and television. A Murder of Quality is the second novel by the author and it features George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters, in his only book set outside the espionage community. One day Miss Ailsa Brimley, editor of a small English newspaper, receives a plea for help and advice from a subscriber which intimates that the letter writer's husband may be about to kill her. Brimley consults her former colleague and friend, the retired British secret service agent George Smiley, but by the time he agrees to look into it, the letter writer is dead… Smiley takes the letter down to Carne, promising Miss Brimley to make sure it arrives quickly in the right hands. When Smiley speaks to the investigating officer, Divisional Superintendent Rigby, he discovers there is a big gap between the Town and Gown, a gap which seems to prevent the police from investigating the murder fully. Smiley offers to help out by making his own discreet enquiries… Enjoy free online English audiobook “A Murder of Quality”, a novel by John le Carré.
