蜜芽传媒

Can daring Edwardian sleuth, Thorpe Hazell manage to foil a gold bullion train robbery?

Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch's most famous novel, first published in 1912.

Thorpe Hazell is a speciality detective using his locomotive expertise to solve audacious and ingenious crimes plaguing Britain鈥檚 Edwardian railways.

Adapted by Fiona Kelcher.

Concluded by Benedict Cumberbatch.

Thorpe is an eccentric and is in many ways a man before his time: a vegetarian and health fanatic using his encyclopaedic railway knowledge to tackle Britain's most ingenious smugglings, thefts, kidnaps and murders. A man of independent means, he thrives on working to his own whims - and operating outside the law when it suits him.

Producer: Fiona Kelcher

Made for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 7 and first broadcast in December 2008.