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“A Murder of Quality.” Written and read by John Le Carre. Listen for Pleasure (abridged, two cassettes). Le Carre spins another of his own yarns about the master plodder, George Smiley. In a letter to Miss Brimley (as Barbara Fellowship, who conducts the Christian Voice’s agony column), the former Stella Rhode, now the wife of a schoolmaster at a leading private school agonizes, “I am not mad and I know my husband is out to kill me. . . . “ So Miss Brimley calls on one of her associates in intelligence during the war, George, “the cleverest and oddest of them all.” Both George and Le Carre are splendid. Information: (800) 843-8404. 1/2