King Solomon's Carpet Author:Barbara Vine Jarvis Stringer is a young man of many peculiarities, but no obsession has taken hold quite like that of writing the strange and twisting history of the London Underground. To finance his project, he rents out cheap rooms in the long-disused West Hampstead schoolhouse he inherited -- a crumbling monument to morbid local lore. — The boarders, each... more » eking out their invisible lives above -- and beneath -- the city's surface, are a collection of strays, waifs, subway buskers, and loners, who are raising the concern of Jarvis’s relatives and more proper neighbors. But even Jarvis has become suspicious. One of his outcasts may be a killer who’s plotting something unforgettable and catastrophic -- and Jarvis himself has unwittingly become a conspirator.« less
ISBN-13: 9780517587959 ISBN-10: 0517587955 Publication Date: 4/14/1992 Pages:355 Edition:1st American ed Rating: