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Victor L Whitechurch: The Mysteries Collection - cover

Victor L Whitechurch: The Mysteries Collection

Victor L. Whitechurch

Publisher: WS

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Summary

Included:

- The Canon in Residence
- Thrilling Stories of the Railway

Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch (12 March 1868 – 25 May 1933) was a Church of England clergyman and author.

He wrote many novels on different themes. He is probably best known for his detective stories featuring Thorpe Hazell, which featured in the Strand Magazine, Railway Magazine, Pearson's and Harmsworth's Magazines. Hazell was a vegetarian railway detective, whom the author intended to be as far from Sherlock Holmes as possible.
Available since: 07/05/2019.
Print length: 560 pages.

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