John le Carrs second novel is an ingenious puzzle featuring his bestloved character George Smiley. Now available in a collectors hardback edition.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 Carnes respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. In his second George Smiley 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 pitchperfect murder mystery, with Smiley as master detective.THE SECOND GEORGE SMILEY NOVELBeautifully intelligent, satiric and witty Daily Telegraph

Binding: Hardback;192 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 340 g; Dimensions: 127 x 199 x 17

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