Thorpe Hazell Explained

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, : Introduction.
• Stories of the Railway, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977, : Introduction by Bryan Morgan

Notes and References

1. News: Grost . Mike . Thrilling Stories of the Railway . . 2012-05-30.
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fy3d2 Thrilling Stories of the Railway