King Solomon's Carpet

King Solomon's Carpet

by Barbara Vine (Author)

Synopsis

Eccentric Jarvis lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking the tube line, compiling his obsessive history of the Underground. A group of misfits are also drawn towards his strange house: Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, the busker who rescues her; truant Jasper who finds his terrifying thrills on the tube; and enigmatic Axel, whose deadly secret casts a shadow over all their lives. Damaged, dispossessed, outcasts, they are brought together in violent and unforeseen ways by London's dark and dangerous underground system.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: New
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 27 Jul 2006

ISBN 10: 0140156917
ISBN 13: 9780140156911
Prizes: Winner of CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction 1991.

Author Bio
'Simply put, Vine is one of the greatest writers ever' Scott Turow. ... Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. Viking have published all her previous novels, including A Dark Adapted Eye, which won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Ruth Rendell sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer. She lives in Maida Vale, London.