Victor L Whitechurch

Thrilling Stories of the Railway (eBook, ePUB)

''He had one other peculiarity''

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Produktbeschreibung

Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch was born on the 12th March 1868 in Norham, Northumberland.

He was educated at Chichester Grammar School and Chichester Theological College and thereafter took positions as curate before becoming the vicar of St. Michael's, Blewbury in 1904.

By 1913 he became Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford, and an honorary canon of Christ Church. In 1918 he became Rural Dean of Ayle.

Although his name barely registers interest in these times he was a popular and well-known author perhaps best known for his fictional detective, Thorpe Hazell, who was featured in many periodicals of the day including the Strand Magazine, Railway Magazine, Pearson's and Harmsworth's Magazines.

As well as being a vegetarian detective the stories were submitted to Scotland Yard to check for accuracy and faithfulness to then police procedures.

Victor L Whitechurch died in Buxton, Derbyshire on the 26th May 1933.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Copyright Group
• Seitenzahl: 135
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781835472293
• Artikelnr.: 69499130

Autorenporträt

Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch was born on 12 March 1868, the son of an East Anglian clergyman. He was educated at Chichester Grammar School and then at the Theological College in the same city, whence he was ordained deacon at the age of twenty-three. Various curacies - mainly in the Thames Valley - took him around the districts until 1904, when he attained his own parish at Blewbury near Didcot For a man in his thirties, just-promoted, not long married and newly a father, his output was prodigious. Already Whitechurch had published one full-length detective novel, and in the nineteenth century he had begun to produce short stories for markets ranging from The Strand to the newly founded Railway Magazine and a humorous series for the Boy's Own Paper; but in the decade after 1904, his production ran to a book a year as well as many more short stories. The books, furthermore, covered a spectrum including crime, clerical lore, travelogue, locale histories, and autobiography.