What is A Murder of Quality?
{{Infobox book | | name = A Murder of Quality | title_orig = | translator = | image = | caption = | author = [[John le Carré]] | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = [[George Smiley]] | subject = | genre = [[Mystery novel]] | publisher = [[Victor Gollancz Ltd|Gollancz]] | release_date = 1962 | media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]]) | pages = | preceded_by = [[Call for the Dead]]<!-- Preceding novel in series --> | followed_by = [[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]]<!-- Following novel in series --> }} '''''A Murder of Quality''''' is the second [[novel]] by [[John le Carré]]. The main character is [[George Smiley]]. This is the only book about Smiley that is not about spying. It is a murder mystery.<ref>{{cite web|last1=CRANMER|first1=DAVID|title=A Murder of Quality by John LeCarre: An Old-Fashioned Detective Mystery|url=http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2014/10/a-murder-of-quality-by-john-lecarre-george-smiley-series-edward-a-grainger|publisher=criminalelement.com|access-date=16 September 2016|date=October 29, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A Murder of Quality (George Smiley) by John le Carré|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/622855.A_Murder_of_Quality|website=[[Goodreads]]|publisher=goodreads.com|access-date=16 September 2016}}</ref> ==Plot summary== George Smiley is a retired spy. Ailsa Brimley was a spy with him during [[World War II]]. Brimley is the editor of a small Christian magazine. She tells Smiley that she got a letter from a reader, Stella Rode. Rode wrote that her husband wants to kill her. Stella Rode is murdered. Smiley travels to Carne to investigate. ==On television== John le Carré changed the novel to make a television program for [[Thames Television]]. ''[[A Murder of Quality (film)|A Murder of Quality]]'' was shown on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] in 1991. It stars: * [[Denholm Elliott]] as George Smiley * [[Glenda Jackson]] as A