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King Solomons Carpet
By Barbara Vine
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Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award
'The tension grows ... an overwhelming sense of foreboding ... when the unravelling takes place it is brilliantly unexpected and original' The Times
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.
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 dangerous Undergound . . .
'I longed to know what would happen next. Towards the end the tension fairly gets you by the throat' Sunday Express
'Vine arouses a genuine fear that all that is normal is in danger of being lost' Sunday Times
King Solomon's Carpet is a modern masterpiece of the crime genre and will leave you gripped from the first page to the last. If you enjoy the novels of P.D. James Ian Rankin and Scott Turow you will love this book.
Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: A Dark Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Asta's Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweeper's Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday Present and The Child's Child.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
370
Release Date:
2009-05-07
Publication Date:
2009-05-07
Publisher:
Penguin
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0141040432
ISBN13:
9780141040431
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
440 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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Very good
Almost no signs of wear. Book pages have no markings, accessories are intact and all other media are in good condition.
€9,79