Thorpe Hazell

Thorpe Hazell

Thorpe Hazell is a fictional detective created by the British author Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch. Hazell was a vegetarian railway expert, 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, Pearson's and Harmsworth's Magazines. They were collected in "Thrilling Stories of the Railway" (1912).

References

* Hugh Greene, ed. "Further Rivals of Sherlock Holmes", Penguin Books, 1973, ISBN 0140038914: Introduction.
* "Stories of the Railway", Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977, ISBN 0 7100 8635 0: Introduction by Bryan Morgan


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