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  High Society Scandal | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook 18.09.2026 2ч 19мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comMayfair in the late afternoon, and one of those stately London houses where the wealth is real and the display is not — a marble hall, dark polished wood, and the settled warmth of a place that has been lived in for a very long time.The lady of the house is silver-haired, upright, and entirely composed until she is asked about her grandson. Then the composure goes.Edward Winslow is twenty-five. Charming, clever, too easily liked. He has been missing for a fortnight. The police have been informed and treat the matter lightly — young men disappear, they say, and young men come back.There is a note. Eight words, scribbled in haste, left by hand with the servants and signed with a single letter. His grandmother does not believe he wrote it in the spirit it pretends, and she says so to the Belgian Detective with Arthur sitting beside her. They have never had silence between them, and this silence is terrible.There has also been talk. Gambling debts. Questions of money. And an attachment of which the family does not approve.High Society Scandal is an original Golden Age-style mystery about a world that would far rather manage a scandal than solve a crime — and very nearly gets its way.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSAn original mystery written by Nocturnal Tales, inspired by the spirit of the great Golden Age crime writers. Plot, characters and text are entirely our own; all characters and events are fictional. This story first appeared in the second volume of our collected mysteries, revised here and recorded as a full audiobook. No affiliation is implied.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSThe whole thing very nearly works, and it fails for one reason: a grandmother who knew exactly how her grandson wrote to her. At what point did you stop believing the note? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:20 - A Grandmother’s Anxiety17:34 - The Ballroom’s Glitter35:46 - Whispers in the Rain52:50 - A Secret Exchange1:13:04 - The Puzzle Takes Shape1:27:38 - The Vigil1:44:14 - The Truth Unveiled2:01:34 - Reputation Restored2:16:38 - Closing📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSWritten by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSgolden age mystery audiobook, missing person mystery, mayfair london mystery, high society mystery audiobook, belgian detective audiobook, arthur mystery audiobook, 1930s london mystery, long full length audiobook, classic detective story audiobook, original golden age whodunit, vintage detective fiction🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #GoldenAgeMystery #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #MissingPerson #HighSociety #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit
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  Judith Lee: The Man who cut off my Hair & Eavesdropping at Interlaken by Richard Marsh | The Midnight Archive 17.09.2026 1ч 40мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comTonight, somebody new — and one of you asked for her without knowing she existed. After our Loveday Brooke episodes, a listener wrote asking for more from Loveday and, in her words, the other female detectives. Here is one almost nobody has heard of.That is the whole idea, and it is a remarkable one. Judith Lee does not investigate crimes. She overhears them being arranged, by people who have no notion that the quiet young woman in the corner is taking down every word off their mouths.Two cases tonight. THE MAN WHO CUT OFF MY HAIR is the first she ever tells, and it is the one in which she discovers, at twelve years old, what her gift is actually worth — and what it costs.Richard Marsh wrote her in nineteen twelve. She is the earliest detective we know of whose gift is a disability turned round, and being able to read a conversation is not at all the same as being able to prove you read it.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is a complete, unabridged reading of these two stories by Richard Marsh, collected in Judith Lee: Some Pages From Her Life (1912) and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — more Judith Lee? Max Carrados? Loveday Brooke? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll attached to this episode, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSShe has no laboratory, no method and no deductions. She simply cannot help understanding, and the stories turn on what a decent person is obliged to do once they do. Should we bring her back? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:20 - The Man who cut off my Hair22:22 - The Man who cut off my Hair41:52 - Interlude42:40 - Eavesdropping at Interlaken1:01:34 - Eavesdropping at Interlaken1:20:41 - Eavesdropping at Interlaken1:37:56 - Closing📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSNarrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Richard Marsh (public domain).🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSrichard marsh audiobook, judith lee audiobook, judith lee some pages from her life 1912, lip reading detective, female detective audiobook, edwardian lady detective, forgotten detective fiction, early women detectives, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #JudithLee #RichardMarsh #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #FemaleDetective #ForgottenClassics #PublicDomain
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  The Girl Who Came Back from London | An English Village Mystery Audiobook 16.09.2026 1ч 5мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comAn English village where nothing can happen without being known within twenty minutes at the post office, thirty minutes at the butcher's, and, at the very latest, before evensong.A young woman has come home to Little Wycham after seven and a half years away, and the village has the news by half past eleven on Tuesday morning. She left the October after her mother died. She is twenty-six now, London has polished her, and she is staying at the cottage her family never quite got round to selling.Her mother's death was ruled accidental at the time. The coroner returned a verdict. The village returned several others, and enjoyed each of them for a season.But that is not the extraordinary part.Evelyn Bell has come back saying her mother was murdered. She says she knows who did it. And when the village sleuth asks, very gently, whether she intends to confront that person — she is told it has already been done.The Girl Who Came Back from London is an original Golden Age-style mystery about what a village remembers, what it prefers to forget, and how much can be hidden inside a description of somebody who is no longer there to correct it.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is an original mystery written by Nocturnal Tales, inspired by the spirit of the great Golden Age crime writers and the English village tradition. The plot, characters and text are entirely our own creation. Little Wycham and everybody in it are fictional, and any resemblance to real persons or places is coincidental. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSA village spent eight years enjoying this as a mystery — suicide for a fortnight, murder for considerably longer — without any of it costing one of them a night's sleep. Would you rather live somewhere that notices everything, or somewhere that notices nothing? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:02 - A Return to Little Wycham11:25 - Squire’s Pond21:44 - The Black Button31:45 - The Other Mother41:33 - The Letter Without a Name53:19 - A Mother’s Love1:02:48 - Closing📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSWritten by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSenglish village mystery audiobook, golden age mystery audiobook, cosy mystery audiobook, village sleuth mystery, old lady detective audiobook, cold case mystery, accidental death mystery, english countryside whodunit, full length mystery audiobook, classic detective story audiobook, original golden age mystery, vintage detective fiction🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #GoldenAgeMystery #EnglishVillageMystery #CosyMystery #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Whodunnit #DetectiveFiction
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  The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery 15.09.2026 1ч 7мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comIt begins with Carlyle putting a question to his friend across the library: do you believe in ghosts, Max? He is not asking idly.A block of flats has a haunted set. A tenant has fled it. The landlord's agent would very much like the business settled before the story reaches the newspapers, and the rents with it.Max Carrados has not seen anything at all for many years. He is also the only person willing to ask the one question nobody has put: not whether the apparition was real, but what anybody stood to gain by its being seen.A small announcement with this one. We have now read every story in Ernest Bramah's first Max Carrados collection. Four separate listeners wrote in asking for more of this author by name, so tonight we open the second book — The Eyes of Max Carrados, published in nineteen twenty-three. There are nine fresh cases in it, and this is the first.Bramah's detective is never triumphant. He is curious, he is courteous to everybody including the guilty, and he treats a frightened tenant with exactly the same seriousness as a chief inspector. That is why people keep asking for him.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is a complete, unabridged reading of The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Bramah, collected in The Eyes of Max Carrados (1923) and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — more Max Carrados? Loveday Brooke? Judith Lee? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll attached to this episode, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSOnce you know what somebody wanted out of an empty flat, the sheeted figure stops being frightening and becomes rather sad. How long did you hold on to the supernatural explanation? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:07 - The Ghost at Massingham Mansions21:12 - The Ghost at Massingham Mansions33:41 - The Ghost at Massingham Mansions49:28 - The Ghost at Massingham Mansions1:05:27 - Closing📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSNarrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Ernest Bramah (public domain).🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSernest bramah audiobook, max carrados audiobook, the ghost at massingham mansions audiobook, the eyes of max carrados 1923, blind detective mystery, haunted flat mystery, ghost hoax story, 1920s london mystery, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #MaxCarrados #ErnestBramah #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #BlindDetective #GhostStory #PublicDomain
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  The Ghost of Schloss Eberwald | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook 14.09.2026 1ч 13мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comA Bavarian mountainside in a snowstorm, and a castle on a black spur of rock with too many roofs and one red window burning beneath the highest of them.Arthur and the Belgian Detective have been summoned by an old acquaintance, the Baroness Adelheid von Eberwald, whose letter was admirably brief. Somebody in her house wishes to frighten her. Unfortunately for them, she is too old to be frightened and too rich to be easily killed.She is also, as it turns out, being poisoned.Then the snow closes the mountain road, the telephone line goes down, and a man falls to his death on the great staircase.And there is a second staircase death to account for, twenty-eight years earlier, which this family has spent a very long time not discussing.The Ghost of Schloss Eberwald is an original Golden Age-style mystery about inheritance, debt, and how convenient a haunted house can be to somebody with entirely practical intentions.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is an original mystery written by Nocturnal Tales, inspired by the spirit of the great Golden Age crime writers. The plot, characters and text are entirely our own creation. All characters, families and events are fictional, including Schloss Eberwald and the von Eberwald family; any resemblance to real persons or places is coincidental. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSThe clue that settles it is not evidence at all. When the ghost laughs, one person looks at the wall because she knows where the sound comes from — and one person looks at her. How long did you hold on to the ghost? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:23 - The Castle That Laughed12:42 - The First Death22:21 - Behind the Wall32:53 - Beneath the Chapel43:12 - The North Tower1:00:20 - The Last Laugh1:10:45 - Closing📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSWritten by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSgolden age mystery audiobook, haunted castle mystery, bavaria mystery audiobook, snowbound country house mystery, belgian detective audiobook, arthur mystery audiobook, ghost hoax mystery, closed circle whodunit, full length mystery audiobook, classic detective story audiobook, original golden age mystery, vintage detective fiction🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #GoldenAgeMystery #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #HauntedHouse #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit #LockedIn
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  The Comedy at Fountain Cottage by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery 13.09.2026 1ч

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comA complete change of key. After signal boxes and railway disasters, this is Ernest Bramah's blind detective in his lightest and most mischievous register, and the title is not ironic. It really is a comedy.Max Carrados telephones the inquiry agent Carlyle at his office one April morning, and Carlyle's face assumes its most amiable expression on recognising his friend's voice — which, if you know these two at all, means he is about to be made a fool of in the most affectionate possible way.What follows involves a young married couple, a small house, a domestic upheaval entirely out of proportion to its cause, and a solution that no serious detective would ever admit to having reached.Nobody dies tonight. There is no theft worth the name and there is no arrest. There is only a household turned upside down by something very small, and a blind man who works the whole thing out from the other end of a telephone line, enjoying himself enormously.Bramah is doing something deliberate here. Having spent a whole collection establishing Carrados as formidable, he turns exactly the same faculties on a domestic muddle. The gift is unchanged. Only the stakes are different.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is a complete, unabridged reading of The Comedy at Fountain Cottage by Ernest Bramah, collected in Max Carrados (1914) and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — more Max Carrados? Loveday Brooke? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll attached to this episode, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSWe chose a gentler evening on purpose — several of you have said the cases without violence are the ones you enjoy most. Would you like more of the Archive's quiet ones? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:00 - Part One16:19 - Part Two29:47 - Part Three43:33 - Part Four📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSNarrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Ernest Bramah (public domain).🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSernest bramah audiobook, max carrados audiobook, the comedy at fountain cottage audiobook, max carrados 1914 collection, blind detective mystery, cosy mystery audiobook, gentle classic mystery, humorous detective story, edwardian domestic mystery, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #MaxCarrados #ErnestBramah #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #BlindDetective #CozyMystery #PublicDomain
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  The Gift of the Emperor by E. W. Hornung | The Midnight Archive — A Raffles Mystery 12.09.2026 56мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)<br>https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales<br>🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.<br>https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com<br><br>A European monarch has sent Queen Victoria a gift: a pearl of quite extraordinary value, travelling home by steamer under discreet guard. The whole affair has been managed with enormous care and almost no publicity.<br><br>Which is, of course, precisely the sort of thing that reaches the ears of a gentleman in the Albany with a taste for the impossible.<br><br>So Raffles and Bunny take passage on the same ship. And what begins as the most audacious theft of Raffles's career turns into something quite different, because a liner at sea offers nothing a burglar can use. No back-garden wall to go over. No cab waiting at the corner. Nowhere at all to go.<br><br>This is the story that closes The Amateur Cracksman, the book that invented the gentleman thief, and it is the one every reader remembers. Conan Doyle disapproved of the whole enterprise on principle — a criminal hero struck him as a bad idea. Hornung's answer, in effect, was to make the reader care about one, and then take him away.<br><br>If you have been following the Archive's run from “The Ides of March,” with a ruined young man climbing the stairs at the Albany with a revolver in his coat pocket, this is where that arc arrives.<br><br>ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS<br>This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Gift of the Emperor by E. W. Hornung, collected in The Amateur Cracksman (1899) and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.<br><br>🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXT<br>The Archive is deep — more A. J. Raffles? Max Carrados? Loveday Brooke? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll attached to this episode, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.<br><br>💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS<br>Bunny watches the sunlit water from a porthole and believes it has closed over his friend for ever. Do you believe it? 🕵️<br><br>🕒 CHAPTERS<br>00:00 - Introduction<br>02:05 - Part One<br>15:20 - Part Two<br>28:52 - Part Three<br>41:00 - Part Four<br><br>📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99<br><br>📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchase<br>https://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383<br><br>🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF included<br>https://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2<br><br>❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS<br><br>📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early<br>https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales<br><br>🌐 Website — every story, free, no account needed<br>https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com<br><br>📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenue<br>https://rumble.com/c/c-7820714<br><br>❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time support<br>https://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales<br><br>💛 PayPal — one-time tip<br>https://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod<br><br>🎧 Apple Podcasts<br>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848<br><br>🧾 CREDITS<br>Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by E. W. Hornung (public domain).<br><br>🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS<br>e w hornung audiobook, raffles audiobook, the gift of the emperor audiobook, the amateur cracksman 1899, gentleman thief mystery, gentleman burglar story, pearl theft mystery, ocean liner crime story, raffles and bunny, classic crime story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery<br><br>🏷️ HASHTAGS<br>#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #Raffles #EWHornung #GentlemanThief #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #VictorianCrime #PublicDomain
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  The Bathtub Enigma | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook 11.09.2026 2ч 17мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comLondon in the fog, and a block of mansion flats in Battersea where a man has been found dead in his own bath.The dead man is an architect. He was seen alive the previous evening, the door was locked from within, and the water was long cold by the time anybody thought to look. It would be an accident, and a great many people would much prefer it to be an accident.Except that on the same afternoon a financier of considerable importance walked out of his offices in the City and has not been seen since.Two men. One dead in a bathtub in Battersea, one vanished from Threadneedle Street. Nobody at Scotland Yard believes for a moment that the two things are connected. The Belgian Detective is quite certain that they are, and cannot at first say why.What follows takes Arthur onto a rooftop above Queen Caroline Mansions, into a hospital ward, across a trading floor in the City and down to a house in Salisbury — and finally to a graveyard at first light, where a coffin is lifted out of the ground to settle a question that has been waiting thirty years to be asked.The Bathtub Enigma is an original Golden Age-style mystery about patience, professional standing, and how much can be arranged by a man everybody has been trained to believe.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSAn original mystery written by Nocturnal Tales, inspired by the spirit of the great Golden Age crime writers. Plot, characters and text are entirely our own; all characters and events are fictional. This story first appeared in the second volume of our collected mysteries, revised here and recorded as a full audiobook. No affiliation is implied.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSThe locked door was never the problem. Everyone in this case was looking at the wrong body. How early did you stop believing in the accident? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:18 - The Architect's Alarm16:07 - The Missing Financier28:51 - Clues from Above42:17 - Threads of Deception57:49 - Stocks and Suspicions1:13:15 - A Gathering of Minds1:27:56 - Shadows of the Past1:43:39 - The Surgeon's Shadow1:56:29 - The Exhumation2:15:17 - Closing📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSWritten by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSgolden age mystery audiobook, locked room mystery, 1930s london mystery, battersea mystery audiobook, missing financier mystery, exhumation mystery story, belgian detective audiobook, arthur mystery audiobook, long full length audiobook, classic detective story audiobook, original golden age whodunit, vintage detective fiction🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #GoldenAgeMystery #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #LockedRoomMystery #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit #VintageMystery
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  The Moabite Cipher by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr Thorndyke Mystery 10.09.2026 59мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comIt begins in a crowd on Oxford Street, waiting for one of those processions that benevolent institutions periodically inflict upon London traffic.A man dies in the press of people. In the confusion a scrap of paper covered in strange characters passes from hand to hand, and within a few hours the police, a professor of antiquities, and a number of considerably less respectable persons all want it very badly indeed.Everybody agrees on what must be done. The cipher must be decoded. Scholars are consulted. Anarchists are suspected. Learned energy is expended in quantity.Dr John Thorndyke — physician, barrister, and the first true forensic scientist in detective fiction — is interested in something else entirely. Not what the document says. The paper it is written on, and what has been done to it.It is a useful correction to the idea that Freeman only wrote grim laboratory procedurals. He builds an elaborate machine of anarchists, antiquities and secret writing, and then reveals that the whole mechanism turns on something faintly ridiculous.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is a complete, unabridged reading of The Moabite Cipher by R. Austin Freeman, collected in John Thorndyke's Cases (1909) and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — more Dr Thorndyke? Max Carrados? Loveday Brooke? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll attached to this episode, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSEveryone in this story attacks the cipher. Thorndyke attacks the paper. How far in did you get before you suspected what the document really was? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:00 - Part One16:24 - Part Two29:22 - Part Three43:39 - Part Four📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSNarrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by R. Austin Freeman (public domain).🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSr austin freeman audiobook, dr thorndyke audiobook, the moabite cipher audiobook, john thorndyke's cases 1909, cipher and code mystery, forensic detective story, scientific detective fiction, edwardian london mystery, secret writing mystery, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #DrThorndyke #RAustinFreeman #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #CipherMystery #ForensicMystery #PublicDomain
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  The Two Confessions | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audioboo 09.09.2026 1ч 14мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comNew Orleans, the spring of nineteen thirty-three. There are certain cities which, even before one has committed a crime in them, seem already to know the secret.Arthur and the Belgian Detective have come for a rest. They have been in the city less than four hours when the telephone rings in their suite at the Roosevelt Hotel.A prosperous man named Charles Rabito has been shot in a warehouse by the river. Two men have already confessed to being present when it happened, and each of them says the other fired.The statements were taken independently, and they agree in every particular but one. The same summons at half past eleven. The same argument over money. The same warehouse, the same hour, the same quarrel — and two different hands on the revolver.One of them is lying, which seems simple enough. The Belgian Detective looks at his friend for rather a long time before answering.The Two Confessions is an original Golden Age-style mystery about the difference between a lie and a contradiction — and about a family that would rather send two men to separate trials than let one thing be said aloud.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSAn original mystery written by Nocturnal Tales, inspired by the spirit of the great Golden Age crime writers. Plot, characters as portrayed, and text are our own. It takes its starting point from a real Louisiana case: Charles Rabito was murdered, and John Capaci and George Daleo were each prosecuted, each placing the shot on the other, and were tried separately. The motive, relationships, setting and solution are invented, and we discuss the real case factually in the Epilogue. All characters as depicted are fictional. No affiliation is implied.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSBoth men describe the same night accurately and both still mislead us. Which one did you believe first, and how long did you hold on to it? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:09 - The Two Confessions11:14 - The Warehouse on the River22:52 - The Woman in Ivory33:34 - The Song Behind the Warehouse46:01 - The Man Who Disappeared59:19 - The Third Story1:09:38 - Epilogue1:11:28 - Closing📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSWritten by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSgolden age mystery audiobook, new orleans 1930s mystery, louisiana true crime mystery, historical mystery audiobook, belgian detective audiobook, arthur mystery audiobook, charles rabito case, two confessions mystery, closed circle whodunit, full length mystery audiobook, classic detective story audiobook, vintage detective fiction🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #GoldenAgeMystery #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #HistoricalMystery #NewOrleans #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit
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  A Day's Folly by Baroness Orczy | The Midnight Archive — A Lady Molly of Scotland Yard Mystery 08.09.2026 45мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comThe newspaper-reading public called it the Somersetshire Outrage, and to this day, as far as the public is concerned, it was never properly explained at all.A young shop assistant named Jane Turner is found in her lodgings at Weston, tied to a chair with a rope, a shawl over her head, half-slipping to the floor. Somebody rushed at her, struck her, and pressed a damp handkerchief to her face. Nothing was stolen. Nothing was gained. The assault appears entirely without purpose.Scotland Yard works at it for three weeks and gets nowhere. There is a sweetheart with an alibi that holds, an elderly woman nobody can trace, and a series of assignations at out-of-the-way railway stations.Then Lady Molly reads a few silly paragraphs in a London newspaper and has the whole thing.She is the head of Scotland Yard's Female Department, and Baroness Orczy — the same author who gave the world the Scarlet Pimpernel — put her in charge of it in nineteen ten, at a time when the real Yard would not have dreamed of it. What she uncovers here is not a criminal conspiracy at all. It is a single reckless afternoon, and a great many frightened people afterwards arranging themselves around it.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is a complete, unabridged reading of A Day's Folly by Baroness Orczy, collected in Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910) and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — more Lady Molly? Max Carrados? Loveday Brooke? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll attached to this episode, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSLady Molly solves it and then agrees to let the whole thing be buried, because a frightened woman matters more to her than a conviction. Was she right? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:45 - Part One12:11 - Part Two22:56 - Part Three33:07 - Part Four📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSNarrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Baroness Orczy (public domain).🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSbaroness orczy audiobook, lady molly audiobook, a day's folly audiobook, lady molly of scotland yard 1910, female detective audiobook, scotland yard female department, edwardian england mystery, blackmail mystery story, staged crime mystery, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #LadyMolly #BaronessOrczy #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #FemaleDetective #EdwardianMystery #PublicDomain
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  The Last Portrait | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook 07.09.2026 1ч 19мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comMexico City, the summer of nineteen twenty-eight. A banquet is given for the man who is about to become President — a soldier who won a civil war, lost an arm doing it, and has collected enemies ever since.Arthur is a guest at that dinner, seated beside the Belgian Detective, who has spent the evening being politely bored.At ten minutes past ten a young artist appears at the door with a sketchbook. Nobody seems to know who invited him. He asks permission to draw the guest of honour, and permission is cheerfully given, because a caricature is a harmless thing.He is halfway through the sketch when a woman across the room drops her champagne glass. She has gone completely white. She is not looking at the drawing. She is looking at the artist.Four minutes later the guest of honour is dead, the artist has been beaten to death by the crowd, and there is a torn scrap of cream-coloured paper on the floor with four words on it in Spanish.What follows is not a hunt for an assassin. Fifty people watched him fire. It is a colder question altogether: who put the pistol in that young man's pocket, and how do you commit a murder using a stranger's hand?The Last Portrait is an original Golden Age-style mystery about grievance, patience, and the difference between the man who fires and the man who aims.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSAn original mystery written by Nocturnal Tales, inspired by the spirit of the great Golden Age crime writers. Plot, characters and text are entirely our own; all characters and events are fictional. The setting draws on the real 1928 assassination of Mexican President-elect Álvaro Obregón, discussed factually in the Epilogue. Our General Alejandro Serrano is an invention, not the historical General Francisco R. Serrano. No affiliation is implied.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSThe man who fired was not the murderer, and the murderer never touched a weapon. Where does the guilt actually sit? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:25 - The Portrait at Dinner12:40 - The Dead Man's Pencil25:05 - San Miguel37:59 - The Seventh Portrait50:14 - The Woman in Emeralds1:01:41 - The Last Portrait1:11:49 - Epilogue1:16:56 - Closing📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSWritten by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSgolden age mystery audiobook, 1920s mexico mystery, mexico city 1928 mystery, historical mystery audiobook, assassination mystery story, belgian detective audiobook, arthur mystery audiobook, original golden age whodunit, unsolved historical murder, full length mystery audiobook, classic detective story audiobook, vintage detective fiction🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #GoldenAgeMystery #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #HistoricalMystery #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit #UnsolvedMystery
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  The Knight's Cross Signal Problem by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery 06.09.2026 1ч 6мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comIt begins with Max Carrados greeting his friend Carlyle at the door and remarking that he has a mystery about him somewhere. He can hear it in the man's step.The mystery is a railway disaster. A signal was passed at danger on a stretch of suburban line, two trains met, and a great many people are dead. The signalman swears on everything he has that the light was green when the express went through.Everybody accepts that he is either lying to save himself or was too drunk to know, and the official inquiry is about to decide which. His career, and very probably his liberty, ends either way.Carrados has never seen a signal light in his life. He is also not satisfied that those are the only two possibilities.What follows is one of the most quietly technical stories Ernest Bramah ever wrote, and one of the coldest endings in Edwardian detective fiction. There is no arrest and no struggle. A man stands up, a door closes, and Carlyle is left with the uncomfortable feeling that he ought to have done something and cannot think what.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is a complete, unabridged reading of The Knight's Cross Signal Problem by Ernest Bramah, collected in Max Carrados (1914) and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.⚠️ A NOTE ON THIS RECORDINGPublished in 1914, this story reflects the attitudes of its time, including toward empire and race. We present it unaltered, as we do every text in the Archive.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — more Max Carrados? Loveday Brooke? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll attached to this episode, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSCarrados is not a policeman, and he decides for himself how this one ends. Did he have the right to settle it the way he does? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:58 - Part One16:36 - Part Two32:06 - Part Three48:00 - Part Four📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSNarrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Ernest Bramah (public domain).🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSernest bramah audiobook, max carrados audiobook, the knight's cross signal problem audiobook, max carrados 1914 collection, blind detective mystery, railway disaster mystery, train crash detective story, edwardian london mystery, scientific detective fiction, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #MaxCarrados #ErnestBramah #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #BlindDetective #RailwayMystery #PublicDomain
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  Wilful Murder & Nine Points of the Law by E. W. Hornung | The Midnight Archive — A Raffles Double Bill 05.09.2026 1ч 12мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comTwo cases tonight from the gentleman thief who has drawn more requests than anybody else in the Archive.WILFUL MURDER is the darkest thing in the whole collection. Bunny warns us at the outset that most of their robberies will not bear telling at length. This one will — because on this occasion Raffles is not planning a theft at all. There is a man who knows too much about them, a fence out at Willesden with a nasty habit of following people home, and Raffles has worked out, quite calmly and from the comfort of an armchair, what the only permanent solution to such a man would be. He is not joking. Bunny cannot make him stop.NINE POINTS OF THE LAW is the antidote, and Hornung knew exactly what he was doing by pairing this kind of story with that kind. A gentleman answers a very strange advertisement and engages Raffles for a very particular commission: not to steal something belonging to somebody else, but to steal back something that was stolen from him. Possession, as the saying goes, is nine points of the law. Raffles has always found the tenth point negotiable.Both come from The Amateur Cracksman (1899), the book that invented the gentleman thief and made a hero of a man the reader really should not be rooting for.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is a complete, unabridged reading of these two stories by E. W. Hornung, collected in The Amateur Cracksman (1899) and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — more from tonight's detective? Loveday Brooke? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Max Carrados? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll attached to this episode, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSWilful Murder shows you what Raffles actually is; Nine Points reminds you why Bunny keeps coming back. Which of tonight's two did you prefer? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:46 - Wilful Murder33:42 - Interlude34:24 - Nine Points of the Law📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSNarrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by E. W. Hornung (public domain).🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSe w hornung audiobook, raffles audiobook, wilful murder audiobook, nine points of the law audiobook, the amateur cracksman 1899, gentleman thief mystery, gentleman burglar story, victorian crime fiction, raffles and bunny, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #Raffles #EWHornung #GentlemanThief #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #VictorianCrime #PublicDomain
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  The Mystery at Kensington Palace (Reimagined Edition) | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook 04.09.2026 2ч 1мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com✨ A REIMAGINED EDITION — this case first appeared in the second volume of our collected mysteries. We have gone back through it, corrected it, and recorded it properly, so it can be heard as it was always meant to be heard.London, May 1935, at the very height of the season, when the town is given over entirely to motor-cars, uniforms, flowers and gossip.Arthur arrives at a red-brick palace as a guest, not insensible to the honour — though he suspects the invitation has rather more to do with the friend he brings than with himself.A celebrated set of stones is to be displayed at a dinner in two evenings' time. Half the guest list already knows it. Within a day the jewel case is found closed, unforced, and empty.There is no broken lock. There is a duplicate key lying in the garden. A servant's button in a corridor. And a glass of champagne hidden behind a vase of lilies, with a woman's lip upon the rim.There is also a household in which every single person has something they would prefer not to be asked about — and one of them is not who they say they are.The Belgian Detective is shown into a house where the truth has been arranged with very great care, and where the evidence has an unfortunate habit of turning up exactly when somebody needs it to.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is an original mystery written by Nocturnal Tales, inspired by the spirit of the great Golden Age crime writers — but the plot, characters and text are entirely our own creation. All characters and events in this story are fictional. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSBe suspicious of the evidence that arrives exactly when you need it. So: when did you first stop believing the housemaid — and would you have trusted the glass? 🕵️📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSWritten by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSBelgian detective mystery audiobook, jewel theft mystery, impossible theft mystery, London 1935 mystery, palace mystery audiobook, planted evidence mystery, imposter in the household, high society mystery, Arthur narrator mystery, reimagined edition, golden age mystery audiobook, classic whodunit audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook
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  The Ghost of Fountain Lane by Catherine Louisa Pirkis | The Midnight Archive — A Loveday Brooke Mystery 03.09.2026 54мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comSomebody has got hold of Miss Loveday Brooke's private address, which she had given strict orders was to be handed to nobody at all. Her holiday lasts precisely as long as it takes to read the note.In a quiet lane outside Brighton, a respectable household is being haunted. Not by one nervous servant with an overactive imagination — by everybody. The cook, the children, the mistress of the house: each has seen the same figure, and each describes it in the same sharp, confident detail.There has also been a stolen cheque, and the two things are not being discussed in the same room.Loveday Brooke of the Lynch Court agency is about thirty, dresses in plain black, and enjoys the great professional advantage of being entirely unmemorable. She arrives, listens to the ghost story from five different people, and then asks the household the one question that nobody has thought to ask.Pirkis was writing in the eighteen nineties, when spiritualism was at its height and perfectly respectable people were paying money to sit in the dark. She puts a woman in plain black in the middle of it who politely declines to be impressed.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is a complete, unabridged reading of The Ghost of Fountain Lane by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, collected in The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1894) and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — more from tonight's detective? Loveday Brooke? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Max Carrados? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll attached to this episode, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSGhost-seeing, Loveday says, is quite as catching as scarlet fever. Have you ever watched a story spread through a group exactly that way? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:54 - Part One14:50 - Part Two26:27 - Part Three39:20 - Part Four📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSNarrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Catherine Louisa Pirkis (public domain).🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDScatherine louisa pirkis audiobook, loveday brooke audiobook, the ghost of fountain lane audiobook, experiences of loveday brooke 1894, victorian lady detective, victorian ghost mystery, female detective audiobook, spiritualism mystery story, brighton victorian mystery, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #LovedayBrooke #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #FemaleDetective #VictorianMystery #GhostStory #PublicDomain
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  The City of Broken Angels | A Veronica Lakewood Mystery Audiobook 02.09.2026 54мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comLos Angeles after midnight. The white buildings turn grey, the palm trees turn black, and the city finally stops pretending.Veronica Lakewood likes it better that way. At least now it is being honest, she says.She and Arthur have left a party in Beverly Hills shortly before twelve and stopped at an all-night grill on the corner, because the coffee is bad and the company is interesting. Two men come in. The lights go out. When they come back on, a police officer and a young woman are dead on the floor — and the girl has spent her last breath on three words that nobody in this story will ever be able to finish for her.By morning Veronica's photograph is on the front page of the Examiner, and a good many powerful people in this town would very much prefer that she stop asking who the dead girl was.A newspaperman who is always at the scene before the police. A detective who has been waiting three years for one particular arrest. A house above Mulholland with nobody living in it. And four young women, only one of whom ever got a headline — and only because somebody famous happened to be standing in the frame beside her.The City of Broken Angels is an original noir mystery about a beautiful place that is very good at not noticing things.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is an original mystery written by Nocturnal Tales, inspired by the spirit of the great Golden Age crime writers and the Los Angeles noir tradition. The plot, characters and text are entirely our own creation. All characters and events are fictional. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSThe girl uses her last breath on three words, and nobody in the story ever finds out how the sentence ended. What do you think she was trying to say? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:58 - Chapter One - After Midnight09:52 - Chapter Two - The Morning Edition18:13 - Chapter Three - The House Above Mulholland27:40 - Chapter Four - The Blue Dahlia35:48 - Chapter Five - The Man in the Photograph43:27 - Chapter Six - Broken Angels📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSWritten by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSveronica lakewood mystery, 1940s los angeles noir audiobook, hollywood noir mystery, hardboiled detective audiobook, original noir mystery, police corruption story, missing girls mystery, film noir style audiobook, lady detective audiobook, full length mystery audiobook, golden age mystery audiobook, original mystery audiobook🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #VeronicaLakewood #NoirMystery #HollywoodNoir #FullAudiobook #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit #GoldenAgeMystery
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  The Aluminium Dagger by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr Thorndyke Mystery 01.09.2026 1ч 5мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comA bell rings in the small hours, and Dr Jervis finds himself doing the one thing he thought he had left behind when he gave up medicine for the law: answering an urgent summons in the dark.A man lies dead in his own sitting room with a dagger of very curious manufacture driven into his back. The door was bolted on the inside. The windows are high above a garden nobody crossed. Nothing is missing, nobody was seen, and there is no possible way for the murderer to have come or gone.Scotland Yard has already decided who did it, and is preparing to arrest her.Dr John Thorndyke — physician, barrister, and the first true forensic scientist in detective fiction — has decided nothing at all yet. He has brought his research case, and he would like to measure a few things first.There is no leap of intuition anywhere in this story. There is measurement, material, and a patient refusal to accept an impossible conclusion when an unlikely one will do. That is Freeman's whole method, and it is why Thorndyke has lasted.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is a complete, unabridged reading of The Aluminium Dagger by R. Austin Freeman, collected in John Thorndyke's Cases (1909) and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — more from tonight's detective? Loveday Brooke? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Max Carrados? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll attached to this episode, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSThe room insists the murder could not have happened. How far into the story did you get before you stopped believing the locked door? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:59 - Part One17:27 - Part Two32:44 - Part Three47:01 - Part Four📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSNarrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by R. Austin Freeman (public domain).🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSr austin freeman audiobook, dr thorndyke audiobook, the aluminium dagger audiobook, john thorndyke's cases 1909, locked room mystery, impossible crime mystery, forensic detective story, scientific detective fiction, edwardian london mystery, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #DrThorndyke #RAustinFreeman #LockedRoomMystery #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #ImpossibleCrime #PublicDomain
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  The Murder Beneath the African Moon | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook 31.08.2026 1ч 17мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comKenya, 1938. The Muthaiga Club, the Ngong road, and a set of transplanted English aristocrats who travelled six thousand miles in order to behave in ways they could never have got away with at home.Arthur arrives convinced that half the British population of Nairobi is hiding from something. The Belgian Detective disagrees. People do not travel six thousand miles to escape themselves, he says. They merely arrange for their mistakes to be made in better weather.There is a dinner. A broken glass. A man who makes enemies as easily as he makes conquests. And a warning delivered across a crowded ballroom that everybody laughs at — until the following morning.Then the lights fail. A motorcar goes roaring away into the dark. And a Bentley is found tilted down an embankment on the Ngong road, with a dead man behind the wheel.A lady in silver. A photograph from Zanzibar. A last dance nobody wants to talk about. And a colony where everyone has an alibi because everyone was drinking with everyone else.The Murder Beneath the African Moon is an original Golden Age-style mystery about exile, appetite, and a society so busy protecting itself that it never quite gets around to finding the killer.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is an original mystery written by Nocturnal Tales, inspired by the spirit of the great Golden Age crime writers. The plot, characters and text are entirely our own creation; the historical epilogue draws on the real murder of Lord Erroll in 1941, one of the most famous unsolved killings of the last century. All characters and events in the story are fictional. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSThe real case has never been solved — not because there were no suspects, but because there were too many people with reasons to want it closed quickly. Does a crowd of powerful, embarrassed witnesses make the truth harder to find than no witnesses at all? 🕵️📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSWritten by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSBelgian detective mystery audiobook, Lord Erroll murder inspired, Happy Valley set, Kenya 1938 mystery, colonial Africa mystery, Muthaiga Club mystery, unsolved murder mystery, Bentley on the Ngong road, Arthur narrator mystery, golden age mystery audiobook, high society scandal, classic whodunit audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook, historical mystery audiobook
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  The Clever Mrs Straithwaite by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery 30.08.2026 1ч 3мин

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.https://nocturnaltalespodcast.comMr Carlyle arrives at The Turrets in the very best possible spirits: white spats, a gardenia in the buttonhole, and the bustling importance of a man who is certain he has brought his friend a straightforward piece of business.A society lady's pearl necklace, worth five thousand pounds, has vanished during a night at the opera. The newspapers have it before lunch. The insurers are already unhappy. And the lady herself is, as the title promises, extremely clever.That is the whole difficulty. Because Max Carrados — blind since a riding accident, and the most humane of the great detectives — works out what happened rather sooner than anybody involved would like him to.A fraud. A counter-fraud. A glove that falls from a box during the first act. And a detective whose real problem is not who did it, but how much of it needs to be said aloud.This is Ernest Bramah in his lighter, more mischievous key, and it ends not with an arrest but with a telephone call from Charing Cross — and one very carefully chosen word.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is a complete, unabridged reading of The Clever Mrs Straithwaite by Ernest Bramah, collected in Max Carrados (1914) and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — more from tonight's detective? Loveday Brooke? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Max Carrados? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll attached to this episode, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSCarrados settles this one without an arrest. He sees everything, and then decides how much of it needs saying. Was he right to handle it that way? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:06 - Part One13:31 - Part Two25:49 - Part Three37:30 - Part Four50:01 - Part Five📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and earlyhttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales🌐 Website — every story, free, no account neededhttps://nocturnaltalespodcast.com📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSNarrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Ernest Bramah (public domain).🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSernest bramah audiobook, max carrados audiobook, the clever mrs straithwaite audiobook, max carrados 1914 collection, blind detective mystery, pearl necklace mystery, insurance fraud mystery, edwardian detective story, london society scandal, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #MaxCarrados #ErnestBramah #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #BlindDetective #DetectiveAudiobook #PublicDomain