Has ever a more...ummm...unique duo been on the trail of
murderers? Arthur Bryant and John May go about solving
crimes in immensely unusual -- and immensely successful --
ways. In WHITE CORRIDOR, the fifth book in this successful
series, Bryant and May venture out of London into the
countryside. The new landscape offers numerous
opportunities for Bryant to complain. Bryant, though, could
probably complain about winning the lottery. Good thing
May's easy-going attitude helps keep things on an even keel.
The two sleuths are investigating a double murder, tracking
a killer who stalks cars trapped on a snowbound road. But
another equally interesting plot is the locked-door murder
of one of their cohorts in the Peculiar Crimes Unit --
pathologist Oswald Finch. Finch dies in a locked mortuary
to which only four keys exist -- all with PCU members.
What a terrific take on an odd duo of detectives. Bryant
and May's unique style will pull you right into these
mysteries. I recommend reading every one of them -- and very
carefully. Curious about Christopher Fowler, I
looked up his website and found that he scripted all six of
the Bryant and May mysteries (another is set to come later)
and each was plotted and planned with foreshadowings and
clues throughout. Wow! From a writer who's challenged with
plotting one book, I give Mr. Fowler a huge BRAVO! His
skillful and intense mysteries are sure to enthrall readers!
From using crackpot psychics to cutting-edge forensics,
Arthur Bryant and John May are famous for their maddeningly
unorthodox approach to solving crimes that the ordinary
police cannot. Now Christopher Fowler, “a new master of the
classical detective story,”* brings back crime detection’s
oddest—and oldest—couple to solve the ultimate locked room
mystery.
It’s an “impossible” crime—a member of the Peculiar Crimes
Unit killed inside a locked autopsy room populated only by
the dead and to which only four PCU members had a key. And
to make matters worse, the Unit has been shut down for a
forced “vacation” and Bryant and May are stuck in a van
miles away in the Dartmoor countryside during a freak
snowstorm on their way to a convention of psychics.
Now, with Sergeant Janice Longbright in charge at
headquarters, Bryant and May must crack the case by cell
phone while trying to stop a second murder without freezing
to death. For among the line of snowed-in vehicles, a
killer is on the prowl, a beautiful woman is on the run
from a man who seeks either redemption or another victim,
and an innocent child is caught in the middle.
Weaving together two electrifying cases, White Corridor is
an unforgettable triumph—by turns hilarious and harrowing—
as two of detective fiction’s most marvelous characters
confront one of human nature’s darkest mysteries: the
ability to deceive, deny, and destroy.
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