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]