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).

Thorpe Hazell
Created byVictor Whitechurch
In-universe information
GenderMale
NationalityEnglish

List of stories

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  • "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

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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

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  • 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