The Mystery of the Boat Express | by Victor L. Whitechurch | Read by Simon Stanhope скачать в хорошем качестве

The Mystery of the Boat Express | by Victor L. Whitechurch | Read by Simon Stanhope

On a gusty January morning, with few passengers wanting to risk the channel crossing, a body is discovered in a locked compartment of the boat train to Porthampton... The story starts at 00:01:20 Narrated/performed by Simon Stanhope, aka Bitesized Audio. If you enjoy this content and would like to help me keep creating, there are a few ways you can support me (and get access to bonus content): Monthly support on Patreon:   / bitesizedaudio   Occasional/one-off support via Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitesize... Donate via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted... Visit my Bandcamp page to hear more of my performances of classic stories, and you can purchase and download high quality audio files to listen offline: https://bitesizedaudio.bandcamp.com/ Become a Bitesized Audio Classics member on YouTube, from $1 / £1 / €1 per month:    / bitesizedaudioclassics   00:00:00 Narrator's Introduction 00:01:20 The Mystery of the Boat Express 00:28:30 Credits, thanks and further listening For a selection of other classic detective stories, including Sherlock Holmes, Loveday Brooke, Dr. Thorndyke, Father Brown, Martin Hewitt, the Old Man in the Corner, and more, do take a look at my "Victorian and Edwardian Detective Stories" podcast:    • Victorian & Edwardian Detective Stories   About the author: The Rev. Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch (1868–1933) was Church of England clergyman, who during his career served as Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford and later became Rural Dean of Aylesbury. He is best remembered today for a series of rural crime novels which he published in the 1920s and early 30s, with titles such as 'Murder at the Pageant', 'Shot on the Downs' and 'Murder at the College'. However, much earlier in his career, while he was still a curate, he wrote a series of detective mysteries for magazine publication, which appeared in numerous periodicals in the 1890s and into the first decade of the 20th century. He was especially noted for penning tales of crime committed in and around the British railway network, many of them featuring the character of Thorpe Hazell, "the railway detective" (although Hazell doesn't appear in this particular story). 'The Mystery of the Boat Express' first appeared in The Royal Magazine in February 1912. It was subsequently published in book form as part of Whitechurch's 1912 collection 'Thrilling Stories of the Railway'. Recording © Bitesized Audio 2026