28 Thrilling Stories of the Railway + Murder at the Pageant (a novel) (Timeless Wisdom Collection)

This volume contains 28 short stories, divided in two collections, of Thrilling Stories of the Railway; as well as one crime novel: Murder at the Pageant. Several of these mysteries feature the author's best known character: Thorpe Hazell, a vegetarian railway detective, whom the author intended to be as far from Sherlock Holmes as possible... The stories were written by a clergyman -Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford-, Victor L. Whitechurch, and in its time were widely admired by big names such as Ellery Queen and Dorothy L. Sayers for their "immaculate plotting and factual accuracy: he was one of the first writers to submit his manuscripts to Scotland Yard for vetting as to police procedure." The following is the complete list of stories: BOOK ONE THRILLING STORIES OF THE RAILWAY 1. PETER CRANE'S CIGARS 2. THE TRAGEDY ON THE LONDON AND MID-NORTHERN 3. THE AFFAIR OF THE CORRIDOR EXPRESS 4. SIR GILBERT MURRELL'S PICTURE 5. HOW THE BANK WAS SAVED 6. THE AFFAIR OF THE GERMAN DISPATCH-BOX 7. HOW THE BISHOP KEPT HIS APPOINTMENT 8. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PILOT ENGINE 9. THE STOLEN NECKLACE 10. THE MYSTERY OF THE BOAT EXPRESS 11. HOW THE EXPRESS WAS SAVED 12. A CASE OF SIGNALLING 13. WINNING THE RACE 14. THE STRIKERS 15. THE RUSE THAT SUCCEEDED BOOK TWO MORE SHORT STORIES 16. THE SLIP COACH MYSTERY: A RAILWAY ADVENTURE 17. A PERILOUS RIDE 18. THE CONVICT'S REVENGE 19. IN THE ROCKHURST TUNNEL: THE GANGER'S STORY 20. A WARNING IN RED: THE STORY OF A RAILWAY MYSTERY 21. A JUMP FOR FREEDOM: AN ENGINE-DRIVER'S STORY 22. SPECIAL WORKING INSTRUCTIONS: A STATION-MASTER'S STORY 23. PIERRE COURNET'S LAST RUN: AN INCIDENT OF THE PRUSSIAN ADVANCE ON PARIS 24. BETWEEN TWO FIRES: THE STORY OF A LOST GUN 25. THE TRIUMPH OF SETH P. TUCKER 26. A POLICY OF SILENCE 27. THE ROMANCE OF THE "SOUTHERN QUEEN": TOLD BY THE FIREMAN 28. IN A TIGHT FIX BOOK THREE Murder at the Pageant