Fifteen golden age railway-themed stories of mystery and adventure, many featuring Thorpe Hazella "e;bibliophile, food and exercise crank, and railway experta "e;one of the first a specialty detectivesa in mystery fiction. Including tales of smuggled cigars and stolen diamonds; a vital document in a German dispatch box; a child disappeared from a train; a runaway engine; and some clever signaling tricks, not all of them of the railway variety a
