Under a Roman palace runs the Lost Water — an underground stream from the aqueducts — and above it a family is being sold up, and somebody is looking for what was hidden when the money went. Crawford lived above Sorrento and wrote more than forty books at a pace his publishers could not keep up with; the Rome under Rome in this one is real, and he had been down there. Fifty-eight plates by painters from Munch to Signorini follow the same Italian light and water through the streets, olive groves and family rooms of the story.
