Le Carré: Constant Gardener

The Constant Gardner:

Handsome, diffident Justin (the "constant gardener" of the title) at first appears not quite up to the task of tracking down her killers. As  his colleague Sandy Woodrow puts it to the pair of British police who come over to investigate the murder, Justin "loves nothing better than toiling in the flowerbeds on a Saturday afternoon - a gentleman , whatever that means - the right sort of Etonian, courteous to a fault ...".

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