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], Pearson's Magazine and The Harmsworth Magazine. They were collected in Thrilling Stories of the Railway.

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.
No.Original airdateTitle
18 December 2008"The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box"
29 December 2008"Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture"
310 December 2008"The Affair of the Corridor Express"
411 December 2008"The Stolen Necklace"
512 December 2008"The Affair of the Birmingham Bank"