KING SOLOMON'S CARPET by Barbara Vine (hier online bestellen)
The story:
Jarvis lives in a big old house with a bell tower, overlooking the Jubilee line. He loves the tube with all
its secrets - its hidden tunnels, its mysterious ''ghost'' stations, its spectacular incidents and frightening
accidents. The house was once a school, but now he lets out rooms. People gather there from the tube. There is
Tom, the lost busker, and Jed, who keeps the hawk and uses the trains in the night hours; Jasper and the truant
boys riding terrifyingly high above the tracks; and Alice, who wants to forget the baby she has deserted. Then
there is Axel, who is an enigma. Axel hates the Underground - he goes down there simply to remind himself how
much he hates it, riding around, formulating his plan.
Extract from book:
About the author:
Barbara Vine is Ruth Rendell, the best-selling crime novelist and author of the much loved "Wexford" mysteries.
Writing as Barbara Vine, she has won numerous awards:A Dark Adapted Eye received huge critical acclaim and was
an Edgar Award Winner, A Fatal Inversion won the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger Award for 1987 and King
Solomon's Carpet won the 1992 Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger Award.
Her novels A Fatal Inversion, Gallowglass and A Dark-Adapted Eye have been successfully televised. Ruth Rendell
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1991 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Diamond
Dagger for a lifetime's achievement in crime writing. In 1997 she was created a life peer and took the title
Baroness Rendell of Babergh.
Ruth Rendell lives in Suffolk.
Buchdaten:
KING SOLOMON'S CARPET by Barbara Vine
Sprache: Englisch
Taschenbuch - 368 Seiten - Penguin Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1. Oktober 1992
ISBN: 0140156917
Preis: € 11,95
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