Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories

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  The King’s Most Loyal Enemy | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook 04.11.2026 1h 22m

  📌 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, October 1926. Sir Alistair Wilkes claims descent from the notorious John Wilkes, whose quarrels with George III's government scandalised eighteenth-century England, and he has invited the Belgian Detective and our narrator to dine in Belgrave Square. He promises the resurrection of a scandal that has slept for a hundred and sixty years.Around his table: his second wife; his daughter by his first marriage; a former Under-Secretary at the Home Office; a red-faced Member of Parliament; a newspaper proprietor; an historian; and a wealthy American widow. Sir Alistair has arranged the seating so that they will quarrel. They do.Then he announces that he holds evidence of a secret arrangement behind the famous Number Forty-Five, and that certain reputations were purchased at the expense of constitutional liberty. The papers are in a dispatch box in the library, in full view of everyone.He withdraws to his study to take a telephone call and locks the door behind him. The minutes pass. When the door is forced, Sir Alistair lies dead beside his desk — and documents have vanished from a box that nobody touched.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is an original mystery written by Nocturnal Tales, inspired by the spirit of the great Golden Age crime writers and by the real eighteenth-century radical John Wilkes — but the plot, characters and text are entirely our own creation. Sir Alistair Wilkes and every character in this story are fictional. A short historical epilogue at the end tells the true story of John Wilkes and Number Forty-Five. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSA locked study, a cut telephone wire, and a box watched by everyone in the room. Who did you suspect first? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:57 - Chapter One - A Most Indecent Invitation14:36 - Chapter Two - The Price of Silence26:19 - Chapter Three - A Lady of Questionable Reputation37:27 - Chapter Four - The Pension of a Dead Woman49:20 - Chapter Five - The Gentleman Who Was Never There1:01:41 - Chapter Six - The Forty-Fifth Man1:12:42 - Historical Epilogue - John Wilkes and the Price of Liberty1:19:53 - 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🎧 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, locked room mystery, London 1926, Belgrave Square dinner party murder, John Wilkes, Number Forty-Five, The North Briton, historical epilogue, golden age mystery audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #ClassicMystery #GoldenAgeMystery #FullAudiobook #LockedRoomMystery #1920sMystery #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit
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  Judith Lee: Was It by Chance Only? & The Restaurant Napolitain by Richard Marsh | The Midnight Archive — A Judith Lee Mystery 03.11.2026 2h 10m

  📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($3.99/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 long evening with Judith Lee — two of her cases, back to back, because you have made it very clear that you cannot have too much of her.Judith Lee, the teacher of the deaf who reads lips across a crowded room, in two cases: two young people whispering in a Brompton Road tea-shop at the start of the Fulham Mystery, and a ball off Leicester Square that becomes the most dangerous adventure she ever told.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSA complete, unabridged reading of Was It by Chance Only? and The Restaurant Napolitain by Richard Marsh, from Judith Lee: Some Pages from Her Life (1912), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSChance, or something else? Where do you think the accident ended in tonight's first case? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:10 - Part One - Was It by Chance Only?35:58 - Part Two - Was It by Chance Only?1:07:32 - Interlude1:08:05 - Part One - The Restaurant Napolitain1:38:00 - Part Two - The Restaurant Napolitain2:07:56 - 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🎧 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 / KEYWORDSJudith Lee audiobook, Richard Marsh, lip-reading detective, Edwardian lady detective, Judith Lee: Some Pages from Her Life 1912, the Fulham Mystery, Leicester Square, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #JudithLee #RichardMarsh #LadyDetective #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain
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  The Adventure of the House Without a Door | An Original Sherlock Holmes Mystery Audiobook 02.11.2026 2h 38m

  📌 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>London, January 1895. Mr Henry Fletcher, a respectable barrister, arrives at Baker Street a little after half past nine in the morning, in a borrowed coat, having already been out on his own inquiry for nearly two hours.<br><br>The night before, he saw a man he knew, called him by name, and received an answer. The last place he had seen that name written was a coffin plate. He followed the man through a front door marked nineteen, and left that house in a hurry, by a back stair, without his coat or his hat.<br><br>This morning he brought a constable to show him the door. Number nineteen has no front door. It has been bricked up for years.<br><br>An hour ago his coat came back to his chambers by district messenger, with his gloves, his handkerchief and his keys still in the pockets — and a pencilled note from a woman, about a copied key and a brother who needs protection. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson have a house to find, and a way into it that no longer exists.<br><br>ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS<br>This is an original Sherlock Holmes story written by Nocturnal Tales — it is not one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's. Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson and Baker Street are in the public domain; the plot, the other characters and the text are entirely our own creation. All characters and events in this story are fictional. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.<br><br>💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS<br>A door that was there last night and bricked up this morning. What was your first theory? 🕵️<br><br>🕒 CHAPTERS<br>00:00 - Introduction<br>01:49 - Chapter One - A Colleague Returns<br>15:19 - Chapter Two - What the Coat Contained<br>26:55 - Chapter Three - Nineteen and Twenty-one<br>40:05 - Chapter Four - The Men upon the List<br>51:34 - Chapter Five - Faces on Glass<br>1:04:47 - Chapter Six - The Singer Upstairs<br>1:16:50 - Chapter Seven - The Borrowed Key<br>1:30:42 - Chapter Eight - The Man Who Was Free<br>1:43:39 - Chapter Nine - Two Staircases<br>1:55:28 - Chapter Ten - The Locked Rooms<br>2:07:48 - Chapter Eleven - Behind the Brickwork<br>2:20:47 - Chapter Twelve - Those Who Must Return<br>2:35:34 - Closing<br><br>📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99<br>📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchase<br>https://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383<br>🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF included<br>https://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2<br><br>❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS<br>📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early<br>https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales<br>🌐 Website — every story, free, no account needed<br>https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com<br>📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenue<br>https://rumble.com/c/c-7820714<br>❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time support<br>https://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales<br>🎧 Apple Podcasts<br>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848<br><br>🧾 CREDITS<br>Written by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.<br><br>🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS<br>Sherlock Holmes audiobook, original Sherlock Holmes mystery, Doctor Watson, Baker Street, Victorian London 1895, impossible door, man back from the dead, Inspector Gregson, full-length mystery audiobook<br><br>
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  Arsène Lupin: The Jewish Lamp by Maurice Leblanc | The Midnight Archive — An Arsène Lupin Mystery 01.11.2026 2h

  📌 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 long evening with Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief — and a duel.Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief, against the great English detective Herlock Sholmes — Maurice Leblanc's playful name for a certain Baker Street resident. A stolen antique lamp, a plea for help from Paris, and a letter from Lupin politely advising Sholmes to stay at home.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSA complete, unabridged reading of The Jewish Lamp by Maurice Leblanc, from Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (1908), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSLupin or Sholmes — whose side were you on by the end? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:50 - Part One - The Jewish Lamp56:25 - Part Two - The Shipwreck1:58:30 - 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🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSNarrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Maurice Leblanc (public domain).🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSArsène Lupin audiobook, Maurice Leblanc, gentleman thief, Herlock Sholmes, Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes 1908, The Jewish Lamp, Paris mystery, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #ArseneLupin #MauriceLeblanc #GentlemanThief #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain
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  Father Brown: The Honour of Israel Gow, The Sins of Prince Saradine, The Eye of Apollo & The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton | The Midnight Archive — A Father Brown Mystery 31.10.2026 2h 58m

  📌 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 long Halloween evening with Father Brown — four of his cases back to back, with his friend Flambeau beside him in every one.Four cases for Father Brown and Flambeau on Halloween night: a Scottish castle stripped of every scrap of gold, a mysterious prince on an island among the reeds, a sun-worshipping prophet above an office by the Thames, and a frozen churchyard where a national hero lies buried.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSA complete, unabridged reading of The Honour of Israel Gow, The Sins of Prince Saradine, The Eye of Apollo and The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton, from The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSFour cases tonight. Which one did Father Brown solve before you even knew what the crime was? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:44 - Part One - The Honour of Israel Gow20:39 - Part Two - The Honour of Israel Gow39:11 - Interlude39:41 - Part One - The Sins of Prince Saradine1:06:11 - Part Two - The Sins of Prince Saradine1:28:58 - Interlude1:29:26 - Part One - The Eye of Apollo1:59:06 - Part Two - The Eye of Apollo2:09:54 - Interlude2:10:24 - Part One - The Sign of the Broken Sword2:47:02 - Part Two - The Sign of the Broken Sword2:55:36 - 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🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSNarrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by G. K. Chesterton (public domain).🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSFather Brown audiobook, G. K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown 1911, Flambeau, priest detective, Scottish castle mystery, Halloween mystery, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #FatherBrown #GKChesterton #Halloween #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain
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  The South Sea Affair | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook 30.10.2026 1h 18m

  📌 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.comJuly 1926. The invitation is engraved on thick ivory paper and bears the crest of the Earl of Harlow: a weekend at Ormsby Park, a Palladian house at the end of a mile of chestnut trees, with three Van Dycks in the gallery and a family fortune that began, rather conveniently, in 1721.On the back, in the Earl's own hand: I believe that a crime committed in 1720 may shortly result in another. Your discretion would be appreciated.The Belgian Detective and our narrator find a remarkable company assembled: the Earl's young second wife and her emeralds, his gambling son, his formidable sister, a red-faced financier and his bored wife, an Oxford historian, and a quiet young woman cataloguing the family papers. The Earl has received three anonymous letters. The last reads: Before Sunday, one Harlow will answer for the others.Over dinner the talk turns to the South Sea Bubble, and the historian loses his temper. Shortly before midnight, a scream comes from the terrace. A body lies at the foot of the steps, and standing over it in the moonlight is the young woman in white — who looks up at the house, and smiles.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is an original mystery written by Nocturnal Tales, inspired by the spirit of the great Golden Age crime writers and by the real South Sea Bubble of 1720 — but the plot, characters and text are entirely our own creation. The Harlow family and every character in this story are fictional. A short historical epilogue at the end tells the true story of the South Sea Bubble. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSA young woman stands over a body in the moonlight, looks up at the house, and smiles. What did you think that smile meant? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:47 - Chapter One - The Price of Everything15:01 - Chapter Two - A Most Inconvenient Inheritance25:39 - Chapter Three - The Sins of the Fathers36:46 - Chapter Four - The Widow’s Secret48:15 - Chapter Five - The Value of Silence1:00:13 - Chapter Six - The Final Dividend1:10:28 - Historical Epilogue - The South Sea Bubble of 17201:15:20 - 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🎧 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, country house murder 1926, South Sea Bubble 1720, English aristocracy, family fortune secret, historical epilogue, golden age mystery audiobook, classic whodunit audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #ClassicMystery #GoldenAgeMystery #FullAudiobook #CountryHouseMystery #1920sMystery #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit
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  Doctor Thorndyke: A Wastrel’s Romance & The Old Lag by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr Thorndyke Mystery 29.10.2026 2h 37m

  📌 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 third long evening with Doctor Thorndyke — two more of Freeman's inverted stories, where you see the crime first and then watch the forensic detective work his way back to it.Doctor Thorndyke, the first great forensic detective, in two inverted stories — you see the crime first: a cyclist in evening dress slipping into a party at Willowdale he was never invited to, and an old convict whose fingerprints seem to settle a murder before anyone has asked a question.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSA complete, unabridged reading of A Wastrel’s Romance and The Old Lag by R. Austin Freeman, from The Singing Bone (1912), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSYou saw both crimes happen. Which moment told you Thorndyke would get to the truth anyway? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:05 - Part One - A Wastrel’s Romance39:28 - Part Two - A Wastrel’s Romance1:24:51 - Interlude1:25:22 - Part One - The Old Lag2:00:58 - Part Two - The Old Lag2:35:27 - 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🎧 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 / KEYWORDSDr Thorndyke audiobook, R. Austin Freeman, forensic detective, The Singing Bone 1912, inverted detective story, fingerprint evidence, Doctor Jervis, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #DrThorndyke #AustinFreeman #ForensicDetective #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain
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  The Last Dance of the Season | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook 28.10.2026 1h 10m

  📌 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, July 1923. The Season is drawing to its close. There are diamonds at dinner and champagne at breakfast, and behind the illuminated windows of Mayfair, the great families are quietly running out of money.The invitation is cream-coloured and exceptionally thick. Lady Evelyn Ravensworth, once Evelyn March, the most celebrated actress in London, asks the Belgian Detective and our narrator to join her box at Covent Garden for the closing gala, and to sup with her afterwards.Around her in the box sit her husband, the Marquess, who must sell another estate; her closest friend, the sharp-tongued widow Lady Caroline Tresilian; Sir Julian Mercer, elegant and excessively attentive; a young poet who has discovered that life is disappointing; and her quiet secretary. Before the final act she shows the Belgian Detective an unsigned note: You have enjoyed fifteen years of another woman's happiness. Before midnight, you will give back what you stole.She promises to tell him everything at supper. She never gets the chance. Outside the opera house, she is shot beside her motorcar, and with her last strength she presses a bloodstained scrap of paper into his hand. Four words: ask about the child.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 COMMENTSAsk about the child. Four words in a trembling hand. Who did you think she meant? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:43 - Chapter One - An Invitation to Ruin12:40 - Chapter Two - The Price of Respectability23:51 - Chapter Three - The Sins of Our Mothers34:56 - Chapter Four - The House of Beautiful Lies46:25 - Chapter Five - A Ball for the Dead57:20 - Chapter Six - The Last Waltz1:08:21 - 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🎧 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, London 1923 mystery, the London Season, Mayfair society murder, Covent Garden opera murder, aristocratic secrets, Inspector Japp, golden age mystery audiobook, classic whodunit audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #ClassicMystery #GoldenAgeMystery #FullAudiobook #1920sMystery #LondonSeason #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit
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  Judith Lee: Uncle Jack & Mandragora by Richard Marsh | The Midnight Archive — A Judith Lee Mystery 27.10.2026 2h 16m

  📌 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>Another long evening with Judith Lee — two more of her cases together, because you keep asking for her.<br><br>Judith Lee, the teacher of the deaf who reads lips across a crowded room, in two more cases: two women at a tea table on the cliffs at Margate and the foolish little man they have in their sights, and an innocent man in prison whose wife has never stopped believing in him.<br><br>ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS<br>A complete, unabridged reading of Uncle Jack and Mandragora by Richard Marsh, from Judith Lee: Some Pages from Her Life (1912), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.<br><br>💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS<br>A foolish little man at Margate, an innocent man in prison — which of tonight's two did Judith Lee's eyes save? Or both? 🕵️<br><br>🕒 CHAPTERS<br>00:00 - Introduction<br>01:49 - Part One - Uncle Jack<br>40:19 - Part Two - Uncle Jack<br>1:09:38 - Interlude<br>1:10:12 - Part One - Mandragora<br>1:42:46 - Part Two - Mandragora<br>2:14:19 - Closing<br><br>📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99<br>📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchase<br>https://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383<br>🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF included<br>https://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2<br><br>❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS<br>📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early<br>https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales<br>🌐 Website — every story, free, no account needed<br>https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com<br>📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenue<br>https://rumble.com/c/c-7820714<br>❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time support<br>https://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales<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 Richard Marsh (public domain).<br><br>🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS<br>Judith Lee audiobook, Richard Marsh, lip-reading detective, Edwardian lady detective, Judith Lee: Some Pages from Her Life 1912, Margate, wrongly convicted man, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery<br><br>🏷️ HASHTAGS<br>#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #JudithLee #RichardMarsh #LadyDetective #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain
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  The Captain Who Wasn’t | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook 26.10.2026 2h 35m

  📌 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.comDublin, November 1929. Rain over South Frederick Street, a travelling trunk that will not quite fit a cupboard, and a small dog who hopes that somebody is going somewhere.Captain Arthur, who runs a private inquiry agency with Anne Foster, is kneeling beside the trunk with a tape measure when a well-dressed lady arrives to thank him. He recovered her missing brooch last Friday, she says, in her drawing room in Rathgar. He has lost weight since then. He looks quite different in daylight.He spent last Friday at a builder's yard. The gentleman Mrs Burgess met was broader, with darker hair, and he left her a modest, well-printed card bearing the Captain's name, an address in Rathmines, and the name of his "representative".He did recover the brooch. He did it competently. He charged rather more than the real Captain would have done. And if one lady has been trusting the borrowed name, the Captain and Anne need to know who else has been letting the other Captain in.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 COMMENTSSomeone was going about Dublin using the Captain's name. Would you have known the difference at your door — and which detail did you trust first? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:45 - Chapter One - An Unexpected Recommendation22:11 - Chapter Two - The Other Captain44:31 - Chapter Three - A Most Satisfactory Report1:05:03 - Chapter Four - What Mr Morrow Actually Did1:27:56 - Chapter Five - An Honest Account1:55:07 - Chapter Six - The Captain in Person2:14:03 - Epilogue - A Reservation in Our Own Names2:32:20 - 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🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSWritten by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSCaptain Arthur mystery audiobook, Anne Foster mystery, Dublin 1929 mystery, Irish detective story, impostor detective, stolen identity mystery, Pip the spaniel, Cormac, golden age mystery audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #ClassicMystery #GoldenAgeMystery #FullAudiobook #DublinMystery #1920sMystery #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit
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  Violet Strange: The House of Clocks & Missing: Page Thirteen by Anna Katharine Green | The Midnight Archive — A Violet Strange Mystery 25.10.2026 3h 1m

  📌 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 long evening with Violet Strange — two of her darkest problems, back to back.Violet Strange, the New York debutante who takes on detective work in secret, in two of her darkest problems: a gloomy house full of clocks where a young woman seems to be fading away, and an old family manuscript whose thirteenth page has vanished — behind a door sealed for many years.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSA complete, unabridged reading of The House of Clocks and Missing: Page Thirteen by Anna Katharine Green, from The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange (1915), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — Judith Lee? Max Carrados? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSA house full of clocks, or a door sealed for years — which of tonight's houses unsettled you more? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:55 - Part One - The House of Clocks46:52 - Part Two - The House of Clocks1:30:26 - Interlude1:30:57 - Part One - Missing: Page Thirteen2:16:03 - Part Two - Missing: Page Thirteen2:59:05 - 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🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSNarrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Anna Katharine Green (public domain).🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSViolet Strange audiobook, Anna Katharine Green, lady detective, The Golden Slipper 1915, gothic mystery, New York society detective, sealed room, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #VioletStrange #AnnaKatharineGreen #LadyDetective #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain
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  octor Thorndyke: The Mandarin’s Pearl & The Echo of a Mutiny by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr Thorndyke Mystery 24.10.2026 2h 32m

  📌 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.comAnother long evening with Doctor Thorndyke, the forensic detective — two cases, and two very different ways of telling a mystery.Doctor Thorndyke, the first great forensic detective, in two cases: a young man who believes he is haunted by a murdered mandarin, and one of Freeman's famous inverted stories — a lighthouse on the Girdler sands, two keepers, and a crime you watch happen before Thorndyke unpicks it.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSA complete, unabridged reading of The Mandarin’s Pearl and The Echo of a Mutiny by R. Austin Freeman, from John Thorndyke's Cases (1909) and The Singing Bone (1912), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — Judith Lee? Max Carrados? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSTonight's second case shows you the crime first. Do you prefer watching Thorndyke catch a culprit you already know — or the classic puzzle? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:58 - Part One - The Mandarin’s Pearl45:59 - Part Two - The Mandarin’s Pearl1:09:09 - Interlude1:09:46 - Part One - The Echo of a Mutiny1:45:31 - Part Two - The Echo of a Mutiny2:30:41 - 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🎧 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 / KEYWORDSDr Thorndyke audiobook, R. Austin Freeman, forensic detective, John Thorndyke's Cases 1909, The Singing Bone 1912, inverted detective story, lighthouse mystery, haunted pearl, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #DrThorndyke #AustinFreeman #ForensicDetective #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain
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  The Adventure of the Mourning Visitor | An Original Sherlock Holmes Mystery Audiobook 23.10.2026 2h 42m

  📌 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, November 1896. Fog over Baker Street, a fire in the grate, and a short paragraph in an evening paper that most readers passed over under the impression that it advertised a theatrical entertainment. Its heading was The Mourning Visitor.Samuel Creed, a retired porter in Bloomsbury, has died in the night. On the afternoon before, an elderly woman in black called at his lodgings, asked for a chair beside the fire, and told him she had come to wait for his funeral. A fortnight earlier, in Kensington, Mr Gideon Prowse died the same way, after the same visitor.Doctor Lionel Kendrick, a careful, retired physician whom Watson has met, has written three letters to the editor about the story. None has been printed. His latest is described as agitated.Sherlock Holmes is interested in what was actually witnessed and what the newspapers merely repeated. Then word comes that the woman in black has called on Doctor Kendrick himself.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is an original Sherlock Holmes story written by Nocturnal Tales — it is not one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's. Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson and Baker Street are in the public domain; the plot, the other characters and the 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 COMMENTSThe woman in black announced each funeral before it happened. When did you decide what she really was? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:50 - Chapter One - Two Funerals13:25 - Chapter Two - The Physician’s House27:11 - Chapter Three - The Woman at the Fire38:48 - Chapter Four - The Boy in the Dock51:51 - Chapter Five - A Visitor Under Observation1:02:16 - Chapter Six - Mr Garside’s Instructions1:14:41 - Chapter Seven - The Dispensary1:27:41 - Chapter Eight - The Bookkeeper1:42:22 - Chapter Nine - An Unwelcome Truth1:53:26 - Chapter Ten - The Fourth Address2:05:11 - Chapter Eleven - The Last Vigil2:22:43 - Chapter Twelve - The Name Restored2:39:38 - 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🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSWritten by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSSherlock Holmes audiobook, original Sherlock Holmes mystery, Doctor Watson, Baker Street, Victorian London 1896, woman in mourning, omen of death mystery, Victorian poisoning, Inspector Lestrade, full-length mystery audiobook🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #SherlockHolmes #BakerStreet #VictorianMystery #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit
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  Max Carrados: The Disappearance of Marie Severe & The Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery 22.10.2026 2h 29m

  📌 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.comAnother long evening with the blind detective, Max Carrados — two of his most absorbing cases together.Max Carrados, the blind detective, in two cases: a schoolgirl from Swanstead on Thames who vanished two weeks ago without a trace, and a schoolboy dead after a supper of mushrooms, with an uncle who was the last to see him alive.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSA complete, unabridged reading of The Disappearance of Marie Severe and The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms by Ernest Bramah, from The Eyes of Max Carrados (1923), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — Judith Lee? Max Carrados? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSCarrados cannot see — and still noticed what everyone else missed. Which clue did you catch before he did? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:56 - Part One - The Disappearance of Marie Severe1:02:19 - Part Two - The Disappearance of Marie Severe1:14:05 - Interlude1:14:37 - Part One - The Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms2:06:08 - Part Two - The Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms2:27:44 - 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🎧 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 / KEYWORDSMax Carrados audiobook, Ernest Bramah, blind detective, The Eyes of Max Carrados 1923, missing schoolgirl mystery, poisoning mystery, Louis Carlyle, Inspector Beedel, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #MaxCarrados #ErnestBramah #BlindDetective #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain
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  The Woman in Their Stories | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook 21.10.2026 2h 5m

  📌 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.comSussex, the first of November, 1931. A colourless sky after a night of rain, a square Georgian house above a small valley, and in a little pavilion among the beech trees, a benefactor dead with an ornamental dagger in his chest.The local inspector has sent for the Belgian Detective because nobody at Ferncombe House agrees about anything — except the death. A business partner says he watched the fatal struggle from the laurels. A young music teacher says he did it himself, to save her. The housekeeper says she saw the widow take the dagger from the study.And the widow, Celia Merriweather, meets them at a drawing table with graphite on her hand and a question of her own. Three people have told the police what she wanted last night. She asks only one thing: that nobody invent an innocent woman who happens to resemble her.She has drawn a plan of the pavilion. And something in one witness's account will not fit the building.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is an original mystery written by Nocturnal Tales, inspired by a listener's suggestion (thank you, Sabrina) and by the conflicting testimonies of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "In a Grove", one of the stories behind Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon. The plot, characters and text are entirely our own creation, and all characters and events are fictional. The historical epilogue at the end discusses the literary and cinematic background. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSFour witnesses, four different women standing beside the bench. Which account persuaded you first — and what finally made you question it? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:29 - Chapter One - The Question She Brought09:47 - Chapter Two - The Pavilion17:12 - Chapter Three - An Honourable Man25:26 - Chapter Four - A Door and a Drawing32:34 - Chapter Five - The Rescue41:36 - Chapter Six - What the House Heard48:17 - Chapter Seven - The Woman Who Arranged It56:07 - Chapter Eight - The Dead Man’s Record1:04:22 - Chapter Nine - The Empty Chair1:13:32 - Chapter Ten - Her Account1:24:17 - Chapter Eleven - A Witness Who Stayed1:32:27 - Chapter Twelve - No One to Rescue1:41:07 - Chapter Thirteen - The Last Account1:50:27 - Chapter Fourteen - What She Kept1:57:37 - Historical Epilogue - The Stories Behind the Story2:02:58 - 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🎧 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, Rashomon inspired mystery, unreliable witnesses, conflicting accounts, country house murder, Sussex 1931, Arthur narrator mystery, golden age mystery audiobook, classic whodunit audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook
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  Judith Lee: Isolda & 8 Elm Grove — Back Entrance by Richard Marsh | The Midnight Archive — A Judith Lee Mystery 20.10.2026 1h 57m

  📌 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.comJudith Lee returns with two more of her cases — because you keep asking, and we are very happy to oblige.Judith Lee, the teacher of the deaf who reads lips across a crowded room, in two more cases: a fashionable fortune-teller who reads palms in a London restaurant, and two suspicious men on the last tram from Blackheath, with a heavy carpet bag and an address that was never meant to be overheard.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSA complete, unabridged reading of Isolda and 8 Elm Grove — Back Entrance by Richard Marsh, from Judith Lee: Some Pages from Her Life (1912), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — Judith Lee? Max Carrados? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSA palm reader in a restaurant, two men on a tram — which time did Judith Lee's gift put her in more danger? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:54 - Part One - Isolda35:43 - Part Two - Isolda1:05:37 - Interlude1:06:12 - Part One - 8 Elm Grove — Back Entrance1:33:40 - Part Two - 8 Elm Grove — Back Entrance1:55:24 - 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🎧 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 / KEYWORDSJudith Lee audiobook, Richard Marsh, lip-reading detective, Edwardian lady detective, Judith Lee: Some Pages from Her Life 1912, fortune-teller mystery, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #JudithLee #RichardMarsh #LadyDetective #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain
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  The Man Who Was Too Fond of Funerals | An English Village Mystery Audiobook 19.10.2026 1h 7m

  📌 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 in autumn. Tea at the vicarage, knitting needles clicking, and in seventeen minutes flat, three illnesses, two engagements and a scandal concerning the new butcher's wife.The real topic, though, is Mr Adrian Bellamy. Silver-haired, beautifully mannered, a widower of fifty-five who came to live at The Cedars eighteen months ago, he has become the most popular man in three villages. He remembers birthdays. He sends flowers. And he writes the most beautiful letters of condolence anyone has ever read.He also attends funerals. Fourteen of them last year, for people he had never met.A sharp-eyed elderly lady in the corner is reminded of a gentleman she once knew, who adored weddings because they reminded him of his own happy marriage. Except that he had never been married.Then a grieving sister receives one of Mr Bellamy's six-page letters on a Saturday morning, shows it to her neighbour before luncheon — and is dead by midnight.A village sleuth notices distinctions. Particularly when they concern death.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 COMMENTSFourteen funerals, a dozen beautiful letters, and one gentleman everyone was watching. Who did you suspect first — and which of the village ladies did you trust least? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:40 - Chapter One - A Gentleman in Black12:07 - Chapter Two - The Condolence Book23:27 - Chapter Three - The People Who Survived33:33 - Chapter Four - The Wrong Kind of Grief43:07 - Chapter Five - A Letter Never Sent54:10 - Chapter Six - The Last Condolence1:04:37 - 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🎧 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, village sleuth, cozy mystery audiobook, poison mystery, condolence letters, funerals mystery, golden age mystery audiobook, classic whodunit audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook
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  Lady Molly of Scotland Yard: A Christmas Tragedy, Sir Jeremiah’s Will & The End by Baroness Orczy | The Midnight Archive — A Lady Molly Mystery 18.10.2026 2h 16m

  📌 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 long evening with Lady Molly of Scotland Yard — the last three cases in Baroness Orczy's book, and the ones in which we finally learn who she really is and why she joined the police.Lady Molly of Scotland Yard in the last three cases of Baroness Orczy's book: a Christmas murder at Clevere Hall, and the two stories that finally reveal her secret.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSA complete, unabridged reading of A Christmas Tragedy, Sir Jeremiah’s Will and The End by Baroness Orczy, from Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (1910), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries. Some phrases reflect the attitudes of their time.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — Judith Lee? Max Carrados? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSWhen did you first suspect Lady Molly had a secret of her own? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:01 - Part One - A Christmas Tragedy27:18 - Part Two - A Christmas Tragedy52:24 - Interlude53:00 - Part One - Sir Jeremiah’s Will1:14:32 - Part Two - Sir Jeremiah’s Will1:35:36 - Part One - The End1:56:43 - Part Two - The End2:13:34 - 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🎧 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 / KEYWORDSLady Molly of Scotland Yard audiobook, Baroness Orczy, lady detective, Edwardian mystery, Christmas mystery, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard 1910, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #LadyMolly #BaronessOrczy #LadyDetective #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain
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  Doctor Thorndyke: The Man with the Nailed Shoes & The Stranger’s Latchkey by R. Austin Freeman 17.10.2026 2h 53m

  📌 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 long evening with Doctor Thorndyke, the forensic detective — two of his cases from John Thorndyke's Cases. You told us you enjoy his longer stories, so we are giving him room.Doctor Thorndyke, the first great forensic detective, in two cases: footprints on the lonely sands of the East Coast, and a missing little boy traced from the fluff inside a stranger's latchkey.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSA complete, unabridged reading of The Man with the Nailed Shoes and The Stranger’s Latchkey by R. Austin Freeman, from John Thorndyke's Cases (1909), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXTThe Archive is deep — Judith Lee? Max Carrados? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSFootprints in the sand or fluff in a latchkey — which of Thorndyke's methods impressed you more? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction02:02 - Part One - The Man with the Nailed Shoes1:04:24 - Part Two - The Man with the Nailed Shoes1:58:20 - Interlude1:58:48 - Part One - The Stranger’s Latchkey2:26:49 - Part Two - The Stranger’s Latchkey2:51:50 - 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🎧 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 / KEYWORDSDr Thorndyke audiobook, R. Austin Freeman, forensic detective, John Thorndyke's Cases 1909, footprint evidence, missing child mystery, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #DrThorndyke #AustinFreeman #ForensicDetective #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain
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  The Gentleman Arthur Saw | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook 16.10.2026 2h 37m

  📌 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.comDublin, October 1929. Smoke hanging above the roofs again, leaves thinning on the Green, and in a tall house in Mount Street, a charity reception in aid of winter boots for boys starting their apprenticeships.Captain Arthur has come with Anne Foster, his partner in the agency and his fiancée, and with the formidable Lady Eleanor. He has forgotten the subscription. He has been warned that at good causes, a detective is seldom allowed to remain a guest.The guest of honour is Mr Charles Ellison: retired printer, generous committee man, a gentleman who remembers the names of the boys he has helped. He gives a short, good speech. Then he mentions, quietly, that a former employee with an old grievance may call later, and that he will deal with it downstairs.An hour later the Captain steps out onto a dark terrace for a breath of air — and through a lighted study window, he watches that respected gentleman bring a heavy candlestick down on another man's head.Ellison does not deny the blow. He says he was attacked first, with a piece of broken glass. And the Captain, who saw everything through that window, did not see quite everything.With the wedding set for the eighth of February, the Captain and Anne must separate what one honest witness saw from what a very reasonable man would like him to believe.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 COMMENTSThe Captain saw the blow with his own eyes — and the whole case turned on what he couldn't see. When did you first stop believing Ellison's account? 🕵️🕒 CHAPTERS00:00 - Introduction01:42 - Chapter One - An Evening of Good Works27:23 - Chapter Two - A Perfectly Reasonable Account49:15 - Chapter Three - The Man Who Came to See Him1:13:11 - Chapter Four - Before the Window1:33:32 - Chapter Five - The Courtesy of Mr Ellison1:56:42 - Chapter Six - What I Saw2:16:19 - Epilogue - For the Eighth of February2:34:48 - 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🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSWritten by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSCaptain Arthur mystery audiobook, Anne Foster mystery, Dublin 1929 mystery, Irish detective story, eyewitness murder mystery, Lady Eleanor, Pip the spaniel, golden age mystery audiobook, classic whodunit audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook