Thrilling Stories of the Railway, by Victor L. Whitechurch

Thrilling Stories of the Railway

by Victor L. Whitechurch

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1.	The Affair of the Corridor Express 29:53	info	buy track
2.	The Tragedy on the London and Mid Northern 32:15	info	buy track
3.	The Affair of the German Dispatch Box 27:31	info	buy track
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A selection of stories featuring Thorpe Hazell, "the Railway Detective", antiquarian, vegetarian, faddist and all round eccentric, created by Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch.

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released August 30, 2022

Read by Simon Stanhope.

The Rev. Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch (1868–1933) was Church of England clergyman, who during his career served as Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford and later became Rural Dean of Aylesbury. He is best remembered today for a series of rural crime novels which he published in the 1920s and early 30s, with titles such as 'Murder at the Pageant', 'Shot on the Downs' and 'Murder at the College'. However, much earlier in his career, while he was still a curate, he wrote a series of detective mysteries for magazine publication, which appeared in numerous periodicals in the 1890s and into the first decade of the 20th century. He invented the character of Thorpe Hazell, who is a specialist in railways, and crime committed in and around trains.

Hazell is an eccentric character; in addition to his fascination with trains and the British railway network, he's a keen collector of antiquarian and rare books and is also notable for his unusual diet and health regimes. He is (relatively unusually for the era) a vegetarian, and several of the stories reference this, as well as his "digestive exercises" and other oddities which amuse and perplex his clients and associates.