The Affair of the Corridor Express
A multi-millionaire's son is snatched from a moving train. Can Hazell foil the kidnappers? Read by Benedict Cumberbatch.
The son of multi-millionaire is snatched from a moving train.
Can Thorpe Hazell foil the kidnappers' dastardly plan..?
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.
Read 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 91福利社 Radio 7 and first broadcast in December 2008.
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