Sentence examples for murder of quality from inspiring English sources
A Murder of Quality - John le Carré Smiley's second outing sees the master spy called out of retirement to solve a brutal murder at a public school.
In the detective story A Murder of Quality (1962), Smiley, having resigned from the secret service, investigates the murder of a schoolmaster's wife.
It was Le Carré's third novel (after the highly creditable Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality) but there is a clear sense in The Spy of a writer hitting his stride with resolute confidence.
There, le Carre wrote his next 2 books: "A Murder of Quality," a detective story, and "The Spy Who Came In from the Cold," which became an all-time best-seller after its publication in 1963.
He was in "Call for the Dead," and then in "A Murder of Quality" (1962), in which he is somehow transfigured into a detective, and asked by a friend to investigate a murder at a public school.
He resented the notion that he was finished, and pointed out that at least three of his novels (A Murder of Quality, The Naive and Sentimental Lover and The Little Drummer Girl) had nothing whatever to do with the cold war, and a fourth (A Small Town in Germany) not much.
"So accustomed do we become to the violence and obscenity of Mr. Price's world," he wrote, "that any act short of outright murder assumes a quality of near-Chekhovian understatement".
Carlos Valverde, an investigative journalist, chronicled 16 such killings in 2009 and 13 in the first half of 2010, including the kidnap, torture and murder of four policemen.Far from improving the quality of justice in Bolivia, Mr Morales's reforms risk making it worse.
After the murder of Brig.
Sanctioning the murder of nuns?
Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale deny murder of Mr Rigby.
