A Murder of Quality
5.0 Stars
3-20-2025

Another early, delightful, Le Carre book. This is sort of the Post Captain of the series, as it takes familiar characters and transposes them to a different genre. In this case you have your spy people, but they are sent off to a murder-mystery, as they try to figure out who killed the wife of a professor at a posh British school. Suspects abound, and they are all intensely horrible in the way that only the British could truly produce, a combination of intelligence and education that has been disfigured and compressed by class/social strictures/gray climate into a truly curdled and malignant but also subtle form. Great stuff.