Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories

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The most famous detective novel ever written — complete, all fifteen chapters, in a single episode of a little over six hours.

A visitor's walking stick left in Baker Street, an old family manuscript, and the curse that has followed the Baskervilles of Dartmoor for two hundred years. The complete novel, in a single episode.

ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, (1902), the complete novel, 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 NEXT
The Archive is deep — 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 COMMENTS
When did you first suspect who was behind the hound — and which moment on the moor made you sit up in the dark? 🕵️

🕒 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:43 - Chapter One - Mr Sherlock Holmes
16:16 - Chapter Two - The Curse of the Baskervilles
40:13 - Chapter Three - The Problem
57:44 - Chapter Four - Sir Henry Baskerville
1:22:12 - Chapter Five - Three Broken Threads
1:43:00 - Chapter Six - Baskerville Hall
2:05:09 - Chapter Seven - The Stapletons of Merripit House
2:35:07 - Chapter Eight - First Report of Doctor Watson
2:52:03 - Chapter Nine - The Light upon the Moor
3:31:15 - Chapter Ten - Extract from the Diary of Doctor Watson
3:52:55 - Chapter Eleven - The Man on the Tor
4:20:51 - Chapter Twelve - Death on the Moor
4:50:22 - Chapter Thirteen - Fixing the Nets
5:11:06 - Chapter Fourteen - The Hound of the Baskervilles
5:36:38 - Chapter Fifteen - A Retrospection
6:01:43 - Closing

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🧾 CREDITS
Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Arthur Conan Doyle (public domain).

🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
the hound of the baskervilles, sherlock holmes audiobook, arthur conan doyle, complete unabridged novel, dartmoor gothic mystery, baskerville curse, classic detective novel audiobook, public domain audiobook

🏷️ HASHTAGS
#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #SherlockHolmes #HoundOfTheBaskervilles #ConanDoyle #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #GothicMystery #PublicDomain

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London, the last night of October. Rain on the pavement, a dinner in Bloomsbury that ran far too late, and an umbrella that turns inside out at the first gust.

Across a narrow street, one café is still lit after closing time. Tonight is its last night — a handwritten notice on the door says so. But the woman who draws back the bolt recognises Arthur at once, and she has been hoping he would come.

Inside, the chairs are upside down on every table but one. That table, by the front window, has been laid for two. It is laid like this every year, on this same night, at the request of a note signed with the name of her husband — who was found in the river twelve years ago. Arthur was the last witness to see him walk out of this room alive.

Now she has a question for him, and she needs the answer before midnight: which of the two men really left this room?

The Belgian Detective has an hour, a pot of coffee, a dark window and a memory that has been trusted for twelve years. The gentleman who reserved the table is expected at the stroke of twelve.

ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This 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 COMMENTS
A reflection in a dark window, a bell above a door, and a witness who was perfectly sure of what he saw. Would you have trusted your own memory — and when did you first doubt it? 🕵️

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Written by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.

🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
Belgian detective mystery audiobook, London 1930s mystery, Halloween night mystery, café mystery audiobook, unreliable witness mystery, twelve-year-old cold case, river death mystery, blackmail mystery, Arthur narrator mystery, golden age mystery audiobook, classic whodunit audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook

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Arsène 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 vanishing from a locked dressing-room, and a rescue on a Paris boulevard at three in the morning — three cases of the gentleman-burglar in one evening.

ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Mysterious Traveller, The Queen’s Necklace & Madame Imbert’s Safe by Maurice Leblanc, from Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (1907), 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.

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The Archive is deep — 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 COMMENTS
Which of the three did you like best — the train, the necklace or the safe? 🕵️

🕒 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:38 - The Mysterious Traveller
35:37 - Interlude
36:15 - The Queen’s Necklace
1:10:59 - Madame Imbert’s Safe
1:35:08 - Closing

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Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Maurice Leblanc (public domain).

🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
arsène lupin audiobook, maurice leblanc, gentleman-burglar 1907, the queen's necklace, the mysterious traveller, madame imbert's safe, classic french mystery, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery

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Argentina, 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, watching the Belgian Detective step off a train with the air of a man who has found defects in an entire republic.

They travel out across the pampas — flat to every horizon, cattle like dark islands on a green sea — to Estancia Santa Emilia, a long pale house among the eucalyptus trees, where a Flemish shipping magnate has come to do business with Don Alejandro de Arriaga: sixty-five, silver-haired, owner of thirty thousand hectares and of strong opinions about politicians, bankers, bishops and dentists.

The family gathers for dinner. A wife whose beauty has hardened rather than faded. Two sons who could not be less alike. A widowed aunt with a silver-topped cane who distrusts foreigners, and Belgians particularly. And at the top of the staircase, the portrait of a laughing girl of seventeen: Emilia, who died in Europe twelve years ago, of an illness nobody in the house can quite name.

Her bedroom has been kept locked, exactly as she left it. But the keyhole is free of dust — and at midnight, there is a strip of yellow light beneath the door.

By nine the next morning, Don Alejandro's horse has come home without him.

The Belgian Detective has come to Argentina on business that is not his own. He is about to discover that in this house, the dead are kept very carefully indeed.

ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This 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 COMMENTS
A room kept a little too perfectly, a light that vanishes when you knock, and a family that cannot remember what killed its own daughter. When did you first doubt that the woman upstairs was Emilia? 🕵️

🕒 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:47 - Chapter One
11:43 - Chapter Two
21:33 - Chapter Three
31:01 - Chapter Four
40:39 - Chapter Five
50:48 - Chapter Six
1:01:18 - Closing

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Written by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.

🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
Belgian detective mystery audiobook, Argentina 1933 mystery, estancia murder mystery, pampas mystery audiobook, locked room of a dead daughter, family secrets mystery, cattle baron murder, South America golden age mystery, Arthur narrator mystery, golden age mystery audiobook, classic whodunit audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook

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Someone 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 Boston, The Thinking Machine bets he can escape the death cell of Chisholm Prison within one week, carrying nothing but the clothes he stands in. He asks for three things only: tooth powder, his shoes blacked, and a little money.

ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle, from The Thinking Machine (1907), 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 NEXT
The Archive is deep — 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 COMMENTS
At which point did you guess how he did it — and should The Thinking Machine come back to the Archive? 🕵️

🕒 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:53 - Part One - The Problem of Cell 13
15:28 - Part Two - The Problem of Cell 13
28:28 - Part Three - The Problem of Cell 13
38:54 - Part Four - The Problem of Cell 13
52:47 - Part Five - The Problem of Cell 13
1:02:53 - Part Six - The Problem of Cell 13
1:26:07 - Closing

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🧾 CREDITS
Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Jacques Futrelle (public domain).

🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
the problem of cell 13, jacques futrelle audiobook, the thinking machine 1907, locked room mystery, impossible prison escape, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery

🏷️ HASHTAGS
#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #TheThinkingMachine #JacquesFutrelle #LockedRoomMystery #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain

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Dublin, 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 little too tightly.

A diamond crescent has disappeared from a widow's dressing table, and the new parlourmaid — nineteen, three weeks out of work before she found the place — was alone in the bedroom on Friday afternoon.

She was engaged on the strength of a glowing character reference. It praises her honesty, her discretion and her careful handling of valuables. It is written in a very good imitation of Anne Foster's handwriting — and Anne Foster has never met her.

This time the case is Anne's from the first morning. Captain Arthur arrives a little later, and discovers that the most useful thing he can do is follow her lead — and fetch the sandwiches.

The Letter Anne Never Wrote is an original Golden Age-style mystery about reputations: the ones we borrow, the ones we lend, and the ones a household can take away without ever calling the police.

ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
An 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. No affiliation is implied.

💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS
A forged reference, a missing brooch, and a new maid who was alone upstairs for five minutes. Who did you suspect first — and when did you change your mind? 🕵️

🕒 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:25 - An Excellent Character
28:45 - The Instrument
59:38 - What Had Been Put Away
1:31:41 - The Value of the Missing Thing
1:53:17 - A Private Arrangement
2:14:47 - A Character in Her Own Name
2:32:45 - A Letter of My Own
2:46:15 - Closing

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Written by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.

🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
golden age mystery audiobook, dublin 1929 mystery, captain arthur mystery, anne foster mystery, stolen brooch mystery, forged letter mystery, female detective mystery, full length mystery audiobook, classic detective story audiobook, original golden age mystery, vintage detective fiction

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#NocturnalTales #GoldenAgeMystery #IrishMystery #FemaleDetective #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Whodunnit #DetectiveFiction

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A 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 looks like a mountain peak, with a smithy at the church's foot and an inn across the road.

At dawn, two brothers meet in the street — one on his way to prayer, the other still in evening dress from the night before, and glad the blacksmith is away from home.

ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Hammer of God 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: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.

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The Archive is deep — 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 COMMENTS
When did you first look up at the church tower — and would you like more Father Brown on Sundays? 🕵️

🕒 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:25 - The Hammer of God
18:17 - The Hammer of God
40:32 - Closing

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🧾 CREDITS
Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by G. K. Chesterton (public domain).

🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
father brown audiobook, the hammer of god, g k chesterton audiobook, innocence of father brown 1911, village mystery story, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery

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#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #FatherBrown #Chesterton #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #VillageMystery #PublicDomain

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Dr 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 crime planned first, and only afterwards see how it is taken apart.

It opens on a train pulling out of Maidstone, where a quiet gentleman finds a stranger settling into his first-class compartment. The stranger never forgets a face — and he has not forgotten this one.

ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is a complete, unabridged reading of A Case of Premeditation 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: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.

🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXT
The Archive is deep — 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 COMMENTS
Thorndyke has an unusual opinion by the end of this one. Did you agree with him? 🕵️

🕒 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:42 - The Elimination of Mr. Pratt
54:28 - Rival Sleuth-Hounds
1:36:10 - Closing

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🧾 CREDITS
Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by R. Austin Freeman (public domain).

🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
dr thorndyke audiobook, r austin freeman audiobook, a case of premeditation, the singing bone 1912, inverted detective story, forensic detective fiction, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery

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#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #DrThorndyke #AustinFreeman #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #ForensicMystery #InvertedMystery #PublicDomain

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Shanghai, 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 several continents had each insisted on building a piece of it.

The Belgian Detective has solved the matter that brought him here before luncheon on the second day, and has since devoted himself to criticising the humidity. Tonight he and Arthur are guests at a private dinner on the seventh floor.

There are nine at table: a British trading director and his wife, a French diplomat, an American journalist, a Chinese physician and his watchful wife, a loud American industrialist — and, arriving late, a man most of Europe knows by name. Anton Varga has made a fortune selling weapons wherever they are least needed and most profitable.

Halfway through dinner, a waiter brings him an envelope. He reads it, and excuses himself for half an hour.

Before the evening is over, he is found dead in his suite on the ninth floor. The lift attendant carried nobody up after him. The staircase was closed. And on a table by the window stand two glasses of champagne.

The Shanghai Room is an original Golden Age-style locked-floor mystery set in the most crowded city of the nineteen-thirties.

ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This 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 hotel, the dinner guests and everybody in them are fictional, and any resemblance to real persons is coincidental. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.

💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS
Nobody went up in the lift. Nobody passed the stairs. And yet two glasses were poured. How did the visitor reach the ninth floor — and when did you work it out? 🕵️

🕒 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:48 - Dinner Above the Bund
10:40 - Nobody on the Ninth Floor
19:15 - The Woman in Red
27:59 - A Window Without a View
36:33 - The Guest Who Had Already Left
45:19 - The Shanghai Room
53:15 - Closing

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Written by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.

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Judith 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 teacher of the deaf, and she reads lips — across a room, across a railway platform, whether she means to or not. She does not investigate crimes. She overhears them being arranged.

Two cases tonight. CONSCIENCE begins on Brighton pier, with a round-faced man whispering a description of a lady's dress to two strangers. MATCHED begins with a hurried word at Charing Cross — and ends on a pleasure cruise with the most accomplished passenger aboard.

ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is a complete, unabridged reading of 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, and some descriptions reflect the attitudes of 1912. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.

🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXT
The Archive is deep — 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 COMMENTS
One case in which she is certain and can prove nothing, and one in which she meets her match. Which did you prefer — and should Judith Lee come back again? 🕵️

🕒 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:37 - Conscience
22:02 - Conscience
48:28 - Interlude
49:07 - Matched
1:10:18 - Matched
1:37:19 - Closing

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🧾 CREDITS
Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Richard Marsh (public domain).

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richard 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

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