Victor L. Whitechurch: The Railway Mysteries

Cover: 9788028337605 | The Railway Mysteries | Victor L. Whitechurch | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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The Railway Mysteries gathers Victor L. Whitechurch's ingenious tales of crime, detection, and misdirection on Britain's railways, a world of timetables, signals, sidings, parcels, and vanishing passengers. Written in a lucid Edwardian prose style, the stories combine the fair-play puzzle with a documentary precision unusual in early detective fiction. Their literary context is the golden prehistory of the genre, when Sherlock Holmes's influence was pervasive, yet Whitechurch distinguished himself by making railway procedure itself a central instrument of mystery and solution. Whitechurch was an Anglican clergyman as well as a prolific writer, and his fiction reflects both moral seriousness and practical curiosity. His most memorable sleuth, Thorpe Hazell, is an eccentric specialist: a railway expert, ascetic, and vegetarian whose knowledge of operations often matters more than brute deduction. Whitechurch's familiarity with contemporary systems, and his concern for technical accuracy, helped give these stories their distinctive authority. This collection is warmly recommended to readers of classic detective fiction, railway history, and Edwardian popular literature. It offers not merely clever plots but a vivid imaginative map of a vanished transport culture, where a delayed train, a misplaced wagon, or a signal irregularity can become the key to truth.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788028337605
ISBN-10:	8028337600
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Whitechurch, Victor L.
Hersteller:	Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Victor L. Whitechurch
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.11.2023
Gewicht:	0,413 kg