A Murder of Quality.

A Murder of Quality.

台灣譯：優質殺手

GEORGE SMILEY NOVELS; 「高貴なる殺人」: 宇野利泰訳 ハヤカワ・ノヴェルズ 1966: 宇野利泰訳 ハヤカワ文庫NV 1979; 「高貴なる殺人」A Murder of Quality, 1991(英): 監督：ギャビン・ミラー ...

. A Murder of Quality · A Murder of Quality Coronet Books John Le Carre

George Smiley is called by his old friend Miss Brimley, who works in a magazine, to try to investigate a death menace letter sent by a reader who says the husband is trying to kill her. Unfortunately, the reader is killed and Smiley doesn't see any other way but to discover the killer. Going to the place where the crime occurred, the famous Carne College, he meets different kinds of people that live in the high society. At every step he takes in the way to the truth, he realizes that were many possible reasons for the murder, and the number of suspects only seems to get bigger.

Le Carré denied that Carne was based on any particular school: "There are probably a dozen great schools of whom it will be confidently asserted that Carne is their deliberate image. But he who looks among their common rooms for the D'Arcys, Fieldings and Hechts will search in vain." ^[1]

quality

1. · High social position.
2. Those in a high social position.

━━ n. 質, 性質, 特質, 品質; 良質, 優秀; 名門, 上流, 高い身分, （高い）社会的地位; （the ～） 上流社会（の人々）; 音質, 音色; （the qualities） 高級紙 ((米国のthe New York Times や英国のthe Timesなど)).

殺人

“殺手” 是killer或 murderer