White Corridor - Tapa dura

The unthinkable has happened at London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit.

In the bitter depths of winter, a key member of staff has been found murdered, and everyone who works there is suddenly a suspect. But Arthur Bryant and John May, the eccentric elderly detectives who run London’s strangest crime division, aren’t on hand to solve the crime. They’ve ventured into the heart of the English countryside, only to become stranded on a desolate snowbound section of road. As the blizzard worsens, Bryant & May attempt to solve the crime long distance using only their mobile phones.

Unfortunately, their situation is about to get very much worse. Unknown to the stranded detectives, an obsessed killer has travelled from the Riviera to Dartmoor, and is stalking the stranded vehicles, searching for one particular victim, coming closer with each passing minute...

As if it didn’t have enough trouble, the Peculiar Crimes unit is about to receive a demanding royal visitor, and the Home Office is preparing to shut the PCU down when the visit inevitably goes wrong...

Two murderers, two incapacitated detectives, just six hours to solve two crimes and save the unit. Armed only with their wits, woolly coats and a stack of dubious veal and ham pies, Bryant & May are bracing themselves for the strangest day they’ve ever spent, trapped inside the white corridor...

As Britain experiences its coldest winter in years, the unthinkable has happened at the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit. With the Home Office poised to close the unit down, a key member of staff has been found dead in a locked autopsy room - and the finger of suspicion points to several colleagues.

What's more, the exasperating, bickering but brilliant elderly detectives who head up this most unorthodox of crime divisions, Arthur Bryant and John May, aren't on hand to take charge. En route to an international convention of psychics, they have been caught in a blizzard of startling ferocity and are now stranded deep in the Devon countryside. Their only option is to attempt to investigate long-distance.

But as the snow thickens and temperatures plummet, things are about to get much, much worse. Among the line of vehicles trapped on this desolate stretch of Dartmoor road prowls an obsessed killer - a deranged murderer who is edging ever closer to one very particular victim.

With no official help at hand and armed only with their wits, woolly coats and a mobile phone with a fading battery, Bryant and May have only a short time in which to solve two very different crimes - and prevent the innocent white snows of winter being turned a bloody red.