Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
Long-form mystery audiobooks for late-night listening. Original Golden Age Murder Mystery-inspired cases, classic-style whodunits, with new detectives like Veronica Lakewood – all told in a cinematic, immersive way with careful historical detail. Settle in, press play, and let the night take over.
Episodes
octor Thorndyke: The Mandarin’s Pearl & The Echo of a Mutiny by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr Thorndyke Mystery
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The Adventure of the Mourning Visitor | An Original Sherlock Holmes Mystery Audiobook
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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
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The Woman in Their Stories | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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Judith Lee: Isolda & 8 Elm Grove — Back Entrance by Richard Marsh | The Midnight Archive — A Judith Lee Mystery
📌 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 crowde
The Man Who Was Too Fond of Funerals | An English Village Mystery Audiobook
📌 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
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard: A Christmas Tragedy, Sir Jeremiah’s Will & The End by Baroness Orczy | The Midnight Archive — A Lady Molly Mystery
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Doctor Thorndyke: The Man with the Nailed Shoes & The Stranger’s Latchkey by R. Austin Freeman
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The Gentleman Arthur Saw | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook
📌 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 fo
Max Carrados: The Virginiola Fraud, The Ingenious Mr Spinola & The Kingsmouth Spy Case by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery
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The Corpse from Constantinople | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
📌 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.comConstantinople at sunset, 1925. The domes and minarets stand black against a copper sky, gulls scream over the Galata waterfront, and Arthur and the Belgian Detective are
Judith Lee: The Miracle & Auld Lang Syne by Richard Marsh | The Midnight Archive — A Judith Lee Mystery
📌 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 is back — the Archive detective you've asked for most — with two more pages from her life in one long evening.Judith Lee, the teacher of the deaf who reads lips
The Manhattan Penthouse Murder | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
📌 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>New York, November 1932. A thunderstorm over Manhattan, bread lines in the streets below, and Arthur and the Belgian
The Flying Stars & The Wrong Shape by G. K. Chesterton | The Midnight Archive — A Father Brown Mystery
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle | The Midnight Archive — A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Complete Novel)
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The Last Table Before Midnight | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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The Mysterious Traveller, The Queen’s Necklace & Madame Imbert’s Safe by Maurice Leblanc | The Midnight Archive — An Arsène Lupin Mystery
📌 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.comArsène Lupin returns to the Archive, for the first time since August — with three cases in one evening.A railway compartment between Paris and Rouen, the Queen’s Necklace
The Death at the Estancia | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
📌 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.comArgentina, the autumn of 1933. A letter arrives complaining that South America is too large, and three weeks later Arthur is standing on a platform in Buenos Aires, watchi
The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle | The Midnight Archive — A Thinking Machine Mystery
📌 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.comSomeone new for the Archive: Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen — Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S., M. D. — known to the newspapers as The Thinking Machine.Over dinner in Bosto
The Letter Anne Never Wrote | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook
📌 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, September 1929. Leaves just beginning to turn along Waterloo Road, and a quiet morning at Merrion Square interrupted by a housekeeper holding a folded paper a litt
The Hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton | The Midnight Archive — A Father Brown Mystery
📌 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 shorter case to close the week, and Father Brown returns for the first time since August.The village of Bohun Beacon is perched on a hill so steep that its church spire
A Case of Premeditation by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr Thorndyke Mystery
📌 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.comDr Thorndyke again. Several of you asked for more of him — and there are more.Like The Case of Oscar Brodski, this is one of Freeman's inverted stories: you watch the crim
The Shanghai Room | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
📌 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.comShanghai, spring 1936. The Huangpu crowded with steamers, junks and barges, the great banks of the Bund standing shoulder to shoulder, and a hotel that looks as though sev
Judith Lee: Conscience & Matched by Richard Marsh | The Midnight Archive
📌 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 is back. After her first episode, more of you asked for her again than for any other Archive detective this month — so we have not made you wait.She is a teache
The Lights of Ardnacrusha | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook
📌 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, May 1929. Rain on the office windows, and a woman of fifty-five in a black coat who has crossed Ireland to sit in the client's chair of a small Dublin enquiry agen
The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle | The Midnight Archive — A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
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The Passenger from Compartment Nine | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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The Secret of Dunstan's Tower by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery
📌 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 old tower, a family that has held it a very long time, and a matter they would greatly prefer to settle without lawyers.Max Carrados can drop the most absorbing occupat
The Case of Oscar Brodski by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr Thorndyke Mystery
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The Ravenswood Mystery (Reimagined Edition) | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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The Murder at Troyte's Hill by Catherine Louisa Pirkis | The Midnight Archive — A Loveday Brooke Mystery
📌 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 lodge-keeper has been found dead at the gates of a great house, and the county has already settled comfortably on who must have done it.Miss Loveday Brooke of the Lynch
The Secret of Cinnamon House | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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The Missing Actress Sensation by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery
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The Black Ribbon of Kilnaree Castle | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook
📌 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.comIreland, the third of May, nineteen twenty-nine. A romantic weekend, our narrator has supposed, begins when two people leave their work behind. His error lay in believing
A Message from the Deep Sea by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr Thorndyke Mystery
📌 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 opens in the Whitechapel Road, and Freeman spends his first paragraph on the street itself before he spends a word on the crime.A young woman has been found dead in her
No Sinecure & A Jubilee Present by E. W. Hornung | The Midnight Archive — A Raffles Double Bill
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High Society Scandal | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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Judith Lee: The Man who cut off my Hair & Eavesdropping at Interlaken by Richard Marsh | The Midnight Archive
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The Girl Who Came Back from London | An English Village Mystery Audiobook
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The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery
📌 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 tena
The Ghost of Schloss Eberwald | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
📌 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 Belg
The Comedy at Fountain Cottage by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery
📌 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
The Gift of the Emperor by E. W. Hornung | The Midnight Archive — A Raffles Mystery
📌 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 u
The Bathtub Enigma | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
📌 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 e
The Moabite Cipher by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr Thorndyke Mystery
📌 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 o
The Two Confessions | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audioboo
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A Day's Folly by Baroness Orczy | The Midnight Archive — A Lady Molly of Scotland Yard Mystery
📌 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 a
The Last Portrait | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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The Knight's Cross Signal Problem by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery
📌 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 i
Wilful Murder & Nine Points of the Law by E. W. Hornung | The Midnight Archive — A Raffles Double Bill
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The Mystery at Kensington Palace (Reimagined Edition) | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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The Ghost of Fountain Lane by Catherine Louisa Pirkis | The Midnight Archive — A Loveday Brooke Mystery
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The City of Broken Angels | A Veronica Lakewood Mystery Audiobook
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The Aluminium Dagger by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr Thorndyke Mystery
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The Murder Beneath the African Moon | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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The Clever Mrs Straithwaite by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery
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The Dreaming Lady by Anna Katharine Green | The Midnight Archive — A Violet Strange Mystery
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The Ghost at the Opera | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
📌 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 in November. A fog that makes even respectable streets look faintly conspiratorial. And an opera house where o
Drawn Daggers by C. L. Pirkis | The Midnight Archive — A Loveday Brooke Mystery
📌 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 things have happened to the Hawke household, and Loveday Brooke's chief is convinced that only one of them is worth anybody's time.A young lady has lost a valuable nec
The Ardlamont Shot | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
📌 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.comScotland, October. A grey house above the Firth of Clyde, and a shooting party that is about to go very badly wrong.Sir Malcolm Ardmore has gathered a small company at his
The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook
📌 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, the case widely held to be the finest Max Carrados ever appeared in — and one of the most quietly frightening stories of its decade.A young naval lieutenant comes
The Island of the Dead | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
📌 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.comThere are certain adventures which, looking back, seem to have announced themselves from the beginning. The weather is too fine. The sea is too calm. And the hotel proprie
The Anthropologist at Large by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr. Thorndyke Mystery
📌 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.comMore from the detective who joined the Archive last night: Dr. John Thorndyke, created by R. Austin Freeman in 1909 — doctor, barrister, and the first true forensic scient
The Blue Sequin by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — The First Dr. Thorndyke Mystery
📌 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 the Archive opens on a detective it has never opened before — and one who changed crime fiction more than almost anyone who came after Sherlock Holmes.Dr. John Tho
The Moscow Sabotage | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
📌 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.comMoscow, March 1933. The snow is grey with coal smoke, foreign engineers are watched as a matter of routine, and a turbine that simply broke down is no longer permitted to
The Frewin Miniatures by Baroness Orczy | The Midnight Archive — A Lady Molly of Scotland Yard Mystery
📌 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.comEight miniatures on ivory. Ten thousand pounds. A house where nobody came and nobody went.Old Mr. Frewin, the art dealer, has spent two years pinned to an invalid chair at
The Pedigree of Pip | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook
📌 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.comSaint Patrick's Day, Dublin, 1929. Captain Arthur has agreed to perform one simple act of kindness: to walk Lady Eleanor's spaniel down to the dog show at the RDS with a g
The Alpine Snowbound Secrets (Reimagined Edition) | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
📌 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 — one of our earliest cases, completely rewritten, expanded and newly recorded. If you heard the original, this is a different telling: longer, rich
Le Premier Pas by E. W. Hornung | The Midnight Archive — A Raffles Mystery (The First Crime)
📌 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>Tonight, the story that answers a question we left hanging.<br><br>When we opened the Raffles stories wit
The Game Played in the Dark & The Tilling Shaw Mystery by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — Two Max Carrados Mysteries
📌 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 double bill for the blind detective — two more cases from Ernest Bramah.🕯️ THE GAME PLAYED IN THE DARKBy some distance the most famous Carrados story ever written. It be
The Poison Between Them | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
📌 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.comThere are marriages which fail because husband and wife stop loving one another. And there are marriages which become infinitely more dangerous because they insist on lovi
The Irish-Tweed Coat & The Fordwych Castle Mystery by Baroness Orczy | The Midnight Archive — Two Lady Molly Mysteries
📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesA second double bill for Lady Molly of Scotland Yard — two of Baroness Orczy's strongest cases.🧥 THE IRISH-TWEED COATIt begins with an Englishman dead in Sicily. Mr. Andrew Carrthwaite, a Yorkshireman who owned marble works outside Palermo and refused to let a single one of his workmen jo
The Telegram from Baldonnel | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook
📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesDublin, and the agency's newest client arrives carrying a flat leather dispatch case and a reputation he is about to lose. Captain Corrigan was one of the men who prepared the great westward Atlantic flight from Baldonnel aerodrome — a modest figure at the edge of photographs full of more
Missing! & A Princess's Vengeance by C. L. Pirkis | The Midnight Archive — Two Loveday Brooke Mysteries
📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesA double bill tonight, and our longest case of the fortnight: two complete mysteries for Miss Loveday Brooke, the quiet, plainly dressed professional of the Lynch Court agency.🔍 MISSING!Five hundred pounds reward. A young woman has walked out of her father's park at ten in the morning and
The Mask Beneath the Glass | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesSão Paulo, February 1929. Carnival has seized the city by the collar: drums and trumpets in the avenues, coffee fortunes discussed before breakfast, a woman dressed as Cleopatra scattering flowers from the roof of a motorcar. From the window of the Hotel Esplanada the Belgian Detective pr
The Resident Patient by Arthur Conan Doyle | The Midnight Archive — Classic Sherlock Holmes Audiobook
📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesA young doctor with a brilliant degree and no money is offered an arrangement too generous to refuse: a fine house in Brook Street, a practice fully furnished, and a silent partner who asks only for a share of the takings and a room of his own. The partner is a nervous, elderly man named
Gentlemen and Players & A Costume Piece by E. W. Hornung | The Midnight Archive — Two Raffles Mysteries
📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesA double bill tonight from the gentleman thief you asked for more than any other: A. J. Raffles, by E. W. Hornung — Conan Doyle's own brother-in-law, who dedicated the collection to him.🏏 GENTLEMEN AND PLAYERSThe most celebrated Raffles story of them all. Raffles is a dangerous bat, a bri
The Mystery of the Locked Mail Van | A Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesIn the spring of 1924, the Andalucía Express departs Madrid for an overnight journey towards Seville. Near the rear of the train, two armed postal clerks guard a locked mail van containing a leather case said to be worth nearly a million pesetas.When the emergency cord is pulled in open c
The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook
📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesThe whole case turns on one insignificant fact: Max Carrados happened to call on his friend, the inquiry agent Louis Carlyle, at the exact moment Carlyle was leaving for the safe deposit in Lucas Street, Piccadilly. While Carlyle attends to his deed-box, the blind man sits quietly among t
A Murder at the Flower Show | An English Village Mystery Audiobook
📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesThe annual horticultural exhibition is under way in the grounds of the great house, the marquee smells of cut grass and rivalry, and a Major's prize roses have quite obviously been bought rather than grown. Then an elderly lady who has waited thirty-four years for an answer accuses somebo
