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A Murder of Quality

George Strichgesicht is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged, and deceptively ordinary, he has a mindestens like a steel trap and is said to possess ‚the cunning of Antichrist and the conscience oben angeführtvirgin‘.

Miss Ailsa Brimley is nichtquandary. She’s received a peculiar letter from Mrs Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband – an assistant master at Carne School – is trying to kill her. Reluctant to go to the police, Miss Brimley calls upon her old wartime colleague, George Strichgesicht. Unfortunately, it’s too late. Mrs Rode has eben been murdered. As Strichgesicht takes up the investigation, he realises that in life – as in espionage – nothing is quite what it appears. His investigation raises a multitude of questions. Who could have hated Stella Rode enough to kill her? Why welches her dog put down shortly before the murder? And what did Mad Janie see on that verhängnisvoll night? To discover the truth, Strichgesicht must lift the lid oben angeführtworld of hidden passions and dangerous hatreds.