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Author: Carre, John le
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 26 May 2011 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Modern Classics' series.
Paperback | 192 pages
136 x 197 x 11 | 146g
Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, 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 Carne's respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. In his second novel, le Carr moves outside the world of espionage to
reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English
institution. The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery, with George Smiley as master detective.
THE SECOND GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL'Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty' Daily Telegraph
