Many works of fiction are set in the London Underground system or use it as a major plot element. This is a partial list. Novels Ben Aaronovitch: Whispers Under Ground (2012) Margery Allingham: Death of a Ghost (1934). The climax of this murder mystery takes place on the Underground. Julian Barnes: Metroland (1981) Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code (2003) Agatha Christie: The Man in the Brown Suit (1924). The mystery begins with the death of a passenger at Hyde Park Corner station. Tom Clancy: Patriot Games (1987; also 1992 film) Christopher Fowler: Bryant and May off the Rails: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery (2011) Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere (1997; also 1996 television series) Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon: Mind the Gap: A Novel of the Hidden Cities (2008) Lisa Goldstein: Dark Cities Underground (1999) James Herbert: The Rats (1974; also 1982 film Deadly Eyes) Tobias Hill: Underground (1999). Involves disused South Kentish Town Underground station. Russell Hoban: The Underground is a character in Kleinzeit. Geoffrey Household: Rogue Male (1939). A pivotal pursuit of the protagonist by an enemy agent sees them repeatedly using the shuttle service on the Aldwych branch line. A chase through Aldwych station ends with the enemy agent's death by electrocution on the track. Aldous Huxley: Point Counter Point (1928) An early, character-defining scene takes place on the Underground. Lawrence Leonard: The Horn of Mortal Danger (1980) Keith Lowe: Tunnel Vision (2001) Ian McEwan: Atonement (2001). One of the main protagonists Cecilia Tallis dies during the Blitz in Balham Tube Station. Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis: Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater (1971) Geoff Ryman: 253 (1997). Set on Bakerloo line. Barbara Vine: King Solomon's Carpet (1991) Nigel West: The Blue List (1989). This espionage story culminates in the war-time bunker built in the uncompleted tunnels of North End station, although this is incorrectly identified as Paddock, a separate bunker in Dollis Hill. Conrad Williams: London Revenant (2004) Catherine Storr: The Underground Conspiracy (1987), children's/teen novel. A teenage girl who travels on the Underground for fun soon becomes a pawn in an elaborate plan to use the Underground to transport drugs. Short stories John Betjeman: "South Kentish Town" (1951) Agatha Christie: "The Labours of Hercules" (1947). At the beginning of the final story, The Capture of Cerberus, Poirot meets the Countess Vera Rossakoff on the escalators at Piccadilly Circus station. Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington