Fifteen golden age railway-themed stories of mystery and adventure, many featuring Thorpe Hazell—bibliophile, food and exercise crank, and railway expert—one of the first “specialty detectives” in mystery fiction. Including tales of smuggled cigars and stolen diamonds; a vital document in a German dispatch box; a child disappeared from a train; a runaway engine; and some clever signaling tricks, not all of them of the railway variety …
Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch (1868–1933) was a British Church of England clergyman, writer, and railway enthusiast. For some years, he was vicar of the village of Blewbury, Oxfordshire, close to the major railway centre of Didcot. He wrote on religious themes, and also wrote novels with a clerical setting, including The Canon in Residence which has been adapted for radio and the stage. His detective stories were much admired by contemporary writers, including Dorothy L. Sayers, for their immaculate plotting and factual accuracy.View all by Victor L. Whitechurch
