Thorpe Hazell
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, Railway Magazine,[1] Pearson's and Harmsworth's Magazines. They were collected in Thrilling Stories of the Railway (1912).
Radio adaptation
Five stories were adapted for radio read by Benedict Cumberbatch on BBC Radio 7[2]
| No. | Original airdate | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2008-12-08 | The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box |
| 2. | 2008-12-09 | Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture |
| 3. | 2008-12-10 | The Affair of the Corridor Express |
| 4. | 2008-12-11 | The Stolen Necklace |
| 5. | 2008-12-12 | The Affair of the Birmingham Bank |
References
- 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
- ↑ Grost, Mike. "Thrilling Stories of the Railway". PBworks. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
- ↑ Thrilling Stories of the Railway
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