Books : White Corridor: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery (Peculiar Crimes Unit Mysteries)
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by: Christopher Fowler
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780553588323
ISBN: 055358832X
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: September 30, 2008
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Sales Rank: 41350
Studio: Bantam
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Product Description:
It’s the classic locked-room mystery—a member of the Peculiar Crimes Unit killed inside a sealed morgue populated only by the dead and to which only four PCU members had a key. To make matters worse, the Unit has been shut down for a forced “vacation,” and Bryant and May are stuck in a van in the Dartmoor countryside during a freak snowstorm. Now they’ll have to crack the case by cell phone while trying to stop a second murder without freezing to death. For among the line of trapped vehicles, a killer is on the prowl, a beautiful woman is on the run, and an innocent child is caught in the middle….
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - More Peculiar Setting than Peculiar Crime
Although this story isn't as "weird" as others in the series, it's still enjoyable as Bryant and May try to solve two crimes via cell phone while stranded in their car in a blizzard. One crime concerns the death of the coroner inside a locked room which only contains other corpses; the other involves a mother and child being pursued by a man who may or may not be a serial killer. Since the two detectives are relatively immobile in this one, the other members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit get to flex ... Read More
Rating:  - Total Enjoyment
Happy to report that (from my perspective) the previous enthusiastic Amazon reviews of "White Corridor," which led me to buy the book, were right on the money. So thanks to those eight and let me add my own applause for this book which is throughly inventive, original and engaging from the first page. Author Fowler has a real knack for the slow revealing of clues that ultimately solve/resolve the several mysteries at work in this book. Also of real interest to me were the wonderful character sketches ... Read More
Rating: - Shock Corridor
WHITE CORRIDOR represents an advance on the formula of previous Bryant and May books and doesn't depend so directly on their Alistair Sim like charms and the mere fact of their being so old and stubborn. Instead author Christopher Fowler bifurcates the space of the novel into four "white corridors," each with its own puzzle. Two of these dominate most of the detective work. In one, we follow the story of Madeline Gilby, a grocery checkout girl and single mother of a restless young son Ryan. Madeline ... Read More
Rating: - Definitive British Mystery
If Ken Bruen's east London crime novels featuring the brutal and boorish Inspector Brant are literature as rugby, then Christopher Fowler's mysteries of the aging Brant and May detective duo are symphonies. Both entertaining, but Bruen is jarring and violent where Fowler is refined, cultured, and subtle. Fowler writes the classic British mystery: dryly humorous, understated, unadorned, and intelligent. In this outing, inspectors Arthur Brant and John May, the irascible and unorthodox heads of London's ... Read More
Rating: - Generally enjoyable... but did I miss something?
As with all the Bryant and May mysteries, I have to say that I mostly enjoyed it. In fact, I think I enjoyed White Corridor more than some of the previous volumes in the series. For one thing, the solutions to both cases seemed to be more logical, less beyond the realm of believability.
But something disturbed me...
*** SPOILER WARNING!! Stop reading if you haven't finished the book!! ***
What happens to Ryan?! I was dreadfully concerned about that poor little boy, ... Read More
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