King Solomon's Carpet
Barbara Vine
Penguin Books Ltd
<p><i>King Solomon's Carpet - </i>a prize-winning crime classic from bestselling author Barbara Vine</p><p><i> </i></p><p>Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award</p><p> </p><p>'The tension grows ... an overwhelming sense of foreboding ... when the unravelling takes place, it is brilliantly unexpected and original' <i>The Times</i></p><p> </p><p>Jarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line, compiling his obsessive, secret history of London's Underground. His presence and his strange house draw a band of misfits into his orbit: young Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, the busker who rescues her; truant Jasper who gets his kicks on the tube; and mysterious Axel, whose dark secret later casts a shadow over all of their lives.</p><p> </p><p>Dispossessed and outcast, those who come to inhabit Jarvis's schoolhouse are gradually brought closer together in violent and unforeseen ways by London's forbidding and...</p>