A Murder of Quality: A George Smiley Novel
Smiley without espionage?! It's actually not too bad as mystery novels go - and there's some interesting light shed on Smiley the man here, things that color the later novels (or at least retrospectively) a bit more. But if you look at it as a Smiley diversion, it's only moderately entertaining - and I certainly wouldn't recommend it solely for the mystery aspect. So really, this one is for the completists I think...More about it at RB: http://wp.me/pGVzJ-ss