Fifteen golden age railway-themed stories of mystery and adventure, many featuring Thorpe Hazell – bibliophile, food and exercise crank, and railway expert-one of the first "speciality detectives" in mystery fiction. Including tales of smuggled cigars, and stolen diamonds; a vital document in a German dispatch box; a child disappeared from a train; a runaway engine; and some clever signaling tricks, not all of them of the railway variety … Peter Crane's Cigars The Tragedy on the London and Mid-Northern The Affair of the Corridor Express Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture How the Bank was Saved The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box How the Bishop Kept his Appointment The Adventure of the Pilot Engine The Stolen Necklace The Mystery of the Boat Express How the Express was Saved A Case Of Signalling Winning the Race The Strikers The Ruse That Succeeded
