The Moon Tunnel

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		The Moon Tunnel
		The Moon Tunnel

基本信息·出版社：Minotaur Books
·页码：336 页
·出版日期：2005年12月
·ISBN：031234922X
·International Standard Book Number：031234922X
·条形码：9780312349226
·EAN：9780312349226
·版本：1st
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Journalist Philip Dryden

内容简介 Crawling on elbows and knees, a man slowly inches forward, making his way through a cramped space and suffocating darkness. He doesn’t know that someone is watching, and in a flash of light, his journey is over.

Now, fifty years later, small-town newspaper reporter Philip Dryden is on-site at a former World War II POW camp observing an archeological dig. The archeologists are looking for buried Anglo-Saxon treasure, but the excavators have found something even more interesting---the skeletal remains of a man trapped in an underground tunnel. The dead man’s intent seems obvious, but there are two things no one can explain: The bullet hole in his forehead and the direction of the body. This prisoner was crawling in, not out.

It’s a puzzle that intrigues Dryden far more than it does the archeologists or the police. Meanwhile, he continues his nightly visits to the hospital where his wife, Laura, is emerging from five years in a coma. Laura can sometimes communicate through a computer now, though the process is painfully slow and erratic. When it turns out that Laura’s father was involved with the POWs during the war, Dryden begins to wonder if the key may lie in long-buried family secrets. And then a second, more recent, body is discovered….
作者简介 Jim Kelly, whose father was a detective for Scotland Yard, previously worked as a journalist and education correspondent for the Financial Times. He lives in Ely with the biographer Midge Gillies and their young daughter. His debut, The Water Clock, was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger for the best first crime novel of 2002, and in 2004 he was very highly commended for the CWA Dagger in the Library, which is awarded to “the author of crime fiction whose work is giving the greatest enjoyment to readers.”
媒体推荐 “The author’s craft at wedding plot and character will remind many of British masters of psychological whodunits such as Minette Walters and Ruth Rendell.”---Publishers Weekly
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. At the start of Kelly's superb third mystery to feature Cambridgeshire journalist Philip Dryden (after 2004's The Fire Baby), an archeological team discovers human remains in the remnants of what appears to have been an escape tunnel from a WWII-era POW camp in England's fen country. That the victim was shot heading toward the camp piques Philip's interest. When forensic evidence dates the victim's death to well after the war, Philip sets out to find the corpse's identity. His search leads to the local Italian community, academics at Cambridge University, the proprietress of a nearby landfill—and to his intellectual and emotional reawakening after a period of feeling half alive. Kelly excels at depicting landscapes (his descriptions of the marsh-like fens rival those of Dorothy L. Sayers) and also rendering eccentric and troubled characters. But what could easily have been a depressing story instead shows the underlying good to be found in most people, that compassion and generosity can motivate as much as lust or anger. Kelly has produced another story rich in plot and character, with a bit of history as well.
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From Booklist

*Starred Review* Kelly's hero, journalist Philip Dryden, is so beautifully drawn, so credibly complex, that he makes most other contemporary mystery heroes and heroines look like fumblings on an Etch-A-Sketch. Five years before this series opens (this is the third installment), Dryden was a rising Fleet Street star married to a successful actress. A car crash plunged his wife into and out of a coma in what is termed locked-in syndrome. Dryden moved to the Black Fens of England, to be near his wife's perpetual-care residence, and now works for the Crow, a paper with a tiny circulation. Dryden's restlessness, isolation, and professional pride drive him to seek out stories and pursue them long past police interest. Here, he checks in at an archaeological dig. As the buildings from an old POW camp for Italian soldiers captured during World War II are cleared, some Anglo-Saxon treasures are unearthed. And a skeleton is found in the tunnel, a bullet hole in the forehead. The man is identified as an Italian POW. Why was he was crawling into the tunnel rather than out? Dryden picks up the story where police interest drops off. What makes the Dryden novels especially intriguing is Kelly's take on his deeply depressed hero. Rather than portraying a man just going through the motions, Kelly shows Dryden to be much more human and noble: the scenes with his wife are both tragic and loving; his love for journalism is intact, even in reduced circumstances; he's searching but never self-pitying. Dryden is a man to watch. Connie Fletcher
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