Too many options? Treat your friends and family to their favourite stores with a Bayshore Shopping Centre gift card, redeemable at participating retailers throughout the centre. Click below to purchase yours today!Purchase Here
Coles THE THORPE HAZELL MYSTERIES – Complete Series: 9 Thrillers in One Volume (Annotated): Enriched Edition. The first amateur railway detective—vegetarian sleuthing with immaculate plotting at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
THE THORPE HAZELL MYSTERIES – Complete Series: 9 Thrillers in One Volume (Annotated): Enriched Edition. The first amateur railway detective—vegetarian sleuthing with immaculate plotting
THE THORPE HAZELL MYSTERIES – Complete Series: 9 Thrillers in One Volume (Annotated): Enriched Edition. The first amateur railway detective—vegetarian sleuthing with immaculate plotting in Ottawa, ON
THE THORPE HAZELL MYSTERIES – Complete Series: 9 Thrillers in One Volume (Annotated): Enriched Edition. The first amateur railway detective—vegetarian sleuthing with immaculate plotting in Ottawa, ON
*Product information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, shipping and return information please contact Coles
The Thorpe Hazell Mysteries gathers the complete sequence of nine ingenious railway thrillers featuring Whitechurch's singular detective: a fastidious, vegetarian "railway specialist" whose mastery of timetables, signals, rolling stock, and human misdirection turns modern transport into a theatre of deduction. Written in a lucid Edwardian style, the stories combine procedural exactness with brisk adventure, belonging to the Golden Age's prehistory while retaining the puzzle craft of classic detective fiction. Victor L. Whitechurch (1868–1933), an Anglican clergyman and prolific writer, brought to fiction both moral seriousness and a meticulous curiosity about systems. His interest in railways was not decorative but structural: he understood them as networks of order, technology, and vulnerability. This knowledge shaped Thorpe Hazell, whose eccentric habits and technical expertise distinguish him from the purely intuitive sleuths of his era. This volume is recommended for readers who enjoy intellectually satisfying mysteries, early detective fiction, and the romance of railway travel. It will especially reward admirers of Conan Doyle, Freeman, and the scientific detective tradition, offering compact plots, period atmosphere, and a hero whose brilliance lies in making modern machinery legible. This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience. - Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
The Thorpe Hazell Mysteries gathers the complete sequence of nine ingenious railway thrillers featuring Whitechurch's singular detective: a fastidious, vegetarian "railway specialist" whose mastery of timetables, signals, rolling stock, and human misdirection turns modern transport into a theatre of deduction. Written in a lucid Edwardian style, the stories combine procedural exactness with brisk adventure, belonging to the Golden Age's prehistory while retaining the puzzle craft of classic detective fiction. Victor L. Whitechurch (1868–1933), an Anglican clergyman and prolific writer, brought to fiction both moral seriousness and a meticulous curiosity about systems. His interest in railways was not decorative but structural: he understood them as networks of order, technology, and vulnerability. This knowledge shaped Thorpe Hazell, whose eccentric habits and technical expertise distinguish him from the purely intuitive sleuths of his era. This volume is recommended for readers who enjoy intellectually satisfying mysteries, early detective fiction, and the romance of railway travel. It will especially reward admirers of Conan Doyle, Freeman, and the scientific detective tradition, offering compact plots, period atmosphere, and a hero whose brilliance lies in making modern machinery legible. This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience. - Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Coles is renowned for its outstanding customer service and great selection of books. Along with the vast array of magazines, stationary, audio-books, children's literature, fiction, non-fiction and reference books, you can find accessories to make your reading experience more pleasurable. We can recommend the very best in reading today. We will help you search our titles for exactly what you need, and if we do not have it in stock, we will order it for you.
