Thorpe Hazell
Thorpe Hazell is a fictional detective created by the British author Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch. Hazell was a railway expert and a vegetarian, whom the author intended to be as far from Sherlock Holmes as possible. Short stories about Thorpe Hazell appeared in the Strand Magazine, the Royal Magazine, The Railway Magazine,[1] Pearson's Magazine and The Harmsworth Magazine. They were collected in Thrilling Stories of the Railway (1912).
List of stories
- "Peter Crane's Cigars"
- "The Tragedy on the London and Mid-Northern"
- "The Affair of the Corridor Express"
- "Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture"
- "How the Bank Was Saved"
- "The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box"
- "How the Bishop Kept His Appointment"
- "The Adventure of the Pilot Engine"
- "The Stolen Necklace"
Radio
Five stories were adapted for radio and read by Benedict Cumberbatch on BBC Radio 7.[2]
| No. | Original airdate | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 December 2008 | "The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box" |
| 2 | 9 December 2008 | "Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture" |
| 3 | 10 December 2008 | "The Affair of the Corridor Express" |
| 4 | 11 December 2008 | "The Stolen Necklace" |
| 5 | 12 December 2008 | "The Affair of the Birmingham Bank" (i.e., "How the Bank Was Saved") |
References
- Hugh Greene, ed. Further Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Penguin Books, 1973, ISBN 0-14-003891-4: Introduction.
- Stories of the Railway, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977, ISBN 0-7100-8635-0: Introduction by Bryan Morgan
- Grost, Mike. "Thrilling Stories of the Railway". PBworks. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
- Thrilling Stories of the Railway
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