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Victor L. Whitechurch
1868 – 1933
26 works on record
Biography
> Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch was a British author born in 1868. He became first a curate and then, in 1904, vicar of St Michael’s church in Blewbury, Berkshire. In his later career he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford and, from 1918, Rural Dean of Aylesbury. His first novel, *The Course of Justice*, was published in 1903, and a prolific writing career followed. Whitechurch’s detective Thorpe Hazell was a vegetarian railway detective, written as an antidote to Sherlock Holmes. Stories featuring Hazell were featured in *Strand Magazine*, *Railway Magazine*, and *Pearson’s* and *Harmsworth’s* magazines.
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Works

Murder at the Pageant
1985

The Floating Admiral
1931

The Canon in residence
1913

The Thorpe Hazell Mysteries and More Thrilling Tales On and Off the Rails

Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Railway Thrillers

A Warning in Red, and the Affair of the Corridor Express

The crime at Diana's pool

The Templeton Case

Downland echoes

Concerning himself

Stories of the Railway

Left in charge
Murder at the college
Murder at the college
Mixed relations
Mixed relations
Warning in Red
Warning in Red
50 Stories of Railway
50 Stories of Railway
28 Thrilling Stories of the Railway + Murder at the Pageant (a Novel)
28 Thrilling Stories of the Railway + Murder at the Pageant (a Novel)
Locum Tenens
Locum Tenens
First and last
First and last
A downland corner
A downland corner
Shot on the downs
Shot on the downs
Off the main road
Off the main road
The dean and Jecinora
The dean and Jecinora
A bishop out of residence
A bishop out of residence
The robbery at Rudwick House
The robbery at Rudwick House
Murder at Exbridge
Murder at Exbridge