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(More customer reviews)As a fan of Christopher Fowler's Peculiar Crime Unit as well as a fan of locked room mysteries, I viewed the arrival of this book with trepidation, because there are so few good new locked room murder mysteries. The last good new one I read was Barbara Amato's "Hard Tack" back in 1991. Even when I was two-thirds through Fowler's new book, "White Corridor", the dread of an inadequate solution remained. Fowler's style is very different from that in traditional locked room mysteries such as those by John Dickson Carr, but his style is also part of his charm. Fowler doesn't have much interest in a complex technical anlaysis of the murder scene. There simply wasn't any good discussion of whether door locks, window latches and other devices could or might have been manipulated to create the illusion of a locked room.
But the ending was worth the wait. The hallmark of a new locked room murder mystery is a novel solution to the locked room problem, and Fowler succeeds on all counts here.
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