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Motieven (1991)

door Barbara Vine

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML: *From an Edgar Award�??winning author: Murder intrudes on a student's secret history of the London Underground in this "brilliantly unexpected" mystery (The Times, London).* 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 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. "A jolting novel of psychological suspense," King Solomon's Carpet was the recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award (The New York Times Book Review… (meer)

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Jarvis Stringer es un joven con muchas peculiaridades, pero ninguna obsesión se ha apoderado tanto como la de escribir la extraña y retorcida historia del metro de Londres. Para financiar su proyecto, alquila habitaciones baratas en la antigua escuela de West Hampstead que heredó, un monumento en ruinas, a la morbosa tradición local.
Los internos, cada uno sobreviviendo a duras penas sus vidas invisibles por encima y por debajo de la superficie de la ciudad, son una colección de vagabundos, niños abandonados, músicos callejeros del metro y solitarios, que están generando la preocupación de los familiares de Jarvis y vecinos más apropiados. Pero incluso Jarvis se ha vuelto sospechoso. Uno de sus marginados puede ser un asesino que está tramando algo inolvidable y catastrófico y el propio Jarvis, sin saberlo, se ha convertido en un conspirador.

Natt90 | Dec 9, 2022 |

Jarvis is a bit of an eccentric: having inherited an old school after his father’s suicide by hanging there, he picks up various people whom he meets and gives them rooms in which to live cheaply. His primary focus is on underground transit systems - the Tube in London of course, BART in the Bay Area, the Metro in France (and Montreal), and so on; he finances trips to these various places by renting the rooms in the school. Some of the characters he has chosen, however, are far more dangerous than he can know…. Barbara Vine is, of course, Ruth Rendell’s pseudonym which she used for her more psychological suspense tales, and "King Solomon’s Carpet" is no exception. In some ways not very much happens here, and what *does* happen here takes its sweet time to occur, but one doesn’t read Barbara Vine for thrilling adventures, one reads her for her deep characterizations of human flaws and grandeurs, small moments of emotional truth and odd bits of triumph in a daily, humdrum life. Lovely stuff. (

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thefirstalicat | Jan 29, 2018 |

I didn't really get into this book. It took me a while to figure out who all the characters were and how they all fit together. Once I did that, the book flowed much better for me as it switched from character to character.

Alice's character really annoyed me. She had no resolve, dedication, or personal strength. She gave up on every single decision she ever made. She couldn't rely on herself; she was always looking for someone else for direction, strength, encouragement, fulfillment...basically for everything. Very NON-self-sufficient.

There were parts of this book I really enjoyed. I thought Jasper was a very interesting character. I really enjoyed the bits about the London Underground and all the little stories that were included-however, they almost seemed to be teasing you with them and not telling the whole story.

I was disappointed that we never really discovered what Axel's motivation was. It was this question just dangling there at the end of the book. An interesting read, though not my favorite. (

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jennannej | Jul 13, 2017 |

I should have trusted my instinct (which was that I wouldn't like another Barbara Vine book) but I was fooled by the blurb saying it was a modern-day take on Conrad's Secret Agent which I enjoyed immensely. Now that I have finished, I can somewhat comprehend that description but while Conrad's story thrilled & fascinated me, this one mostly bored me. It is a "psychological thriller"; apparently that means it is about people's thoughts & emotions with very little action (and most of that occurring off-stage). The one person in whose thoughts I would have been interested was of course the one whose thoughts and motivations are not given. And that is one of my biggest complaints of all -- in the end, there is no resolution or explanation. I could have put up with all the character-driven stuff if the plot had had some point! Why did Axel want to bomb the tube? Did it have something to do with his sister or was he driven by some anarchist philosophy or what?

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leslie.98 | Mar 15, 2017 |

Dire. Remarkably boring and a waste of my time. I bet she phoned this one in. She rang her agent and dictated it to the secretary. (

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Vine, Barbara	—	primaire auteur	alle edities	bevestigd
Porcelĳn, Rifke	—	Secundaire auteur	sommige edities	bevestigd
Porter, Davina	Verteller	Secundaire auteur	sommige edities	bevestigd

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:

From an Edgar Award�??winning author: Murder intrudes on a student's secret history of the London Underground in this "brilliantly unexpected" mystery (The Times, London).

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 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.

"A jolting novel of psychological suspense," King Solomon's Carpet was the recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award (The New York Times Book Review

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