num_pages: 157
description: Benedict Cumberbatch reads five stories featuring the famous vegetarian railway detective Thorpe Hazell as heard on BBC Radio 4. In The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box Hazell hatches a daring plan to retrieve a highly sensitive government document before it reaches the German Ambassador. In Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture when an entire wagon containing valuable paintings disappears from a goods train Hazell's skill is needed. In The Affair of the Corridor Express a multimillionaire's son disappears from a moving train. Hazell must find the kidnappers before the boy is lost forever. In The Stolen Necklace a lady begs Hazell to help when the diamond necklace that she borrowed is stolen from her suitcase. In The Affair of the Birmingham Bank customers keep drawing money from a Midlands bank so gold reserves are sent by train. Hazell must guard against train robbery.
language: None
title: Thrilling Stories of the Railway
publisher: Black Heath Editions