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Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
By Nicolas and Dora – Nocturnal TalesHistory
Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories episodes
- The Twelfth Stroke | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)
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Bologna, a grey Sunday morning in November 1920: a city that seems built for beauty and conspiracy at once. In eleven minutes the newly elected Socialist council will take possession of the Palazzo d'Accursio, and half the city — Red flags on one side of the square, Blackshirts on the other — appears determined that it should end in blood. The Belgian Detective and his loyal companion have come only to protect a frightened silk merchant, Carlo Bellandi, who has received three anonymous letters promising his death. Then the great clock begins to strike noon, and on the fourth stroke comes the first shot. A body rolls down a staircase. A man is found bound and bleeding beneath a platform. A dispatch box is forced open, a half-burned list of names inside it, and a bloody handprint marks the stone. As the square outside dissolves into gunfire and smoke, the detective follows a red trail through galleries, service doors and a tunnel two minutes beneath the city, racing the twelve strokes of a clock to reach the one hidden hand arranging a massacre to look like chaos. The Twelfth Stroke is a tense, historical Golden Age-style mystery about political violence, propaganda, and the terrible ease with which a planned crime can hide inside a riot.
ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is an original Golden Age-style mystery presented as a respectful homage to classic detective fiction, inspired by the real Palazzo d'Accursio massacre of 21 November 1920 in Bologna, one of the bloodiest episodes of Italy's Biennio Rosso (the "Two Red Years"). Unlike our fictional mystery, that tragedy had no single hidden mastermind. Names, characters and events here are altered and fictionalised. All characters are fictional. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.
💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS
In the story, one hidden hand arranged the massacre, and could be stopped. In life, the real tragedy had no mastermind at all — only extremism, distrust and panic. Which is more frightening: a single villain who plans the bloodshed, or a crowd in which no one did, and it happened anyway? 🕵️
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Written by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.
🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
Belgian detective mystery audiobook, Bologna 1920 mystery, Palazzo d'Accursio inspired, Italian history mystery, Biennio Rosso mystery, political conspiracy mystery, historical thriller audiobook, countdown mystery, golden age mystery audiobook, massacre conspiracy mystery, 1920s Italy mystery, classic whodunit audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook, historical mystery audiobook, detective in Italy1 hr 6 min - The Ballerina's Revenge | A Glamorous Lady Detective Mystery Audiobook📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)
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A poisoned pastry. A jealous prima ballerina. And one very elegant detective with an incurable weakness for cake. When Melbourne's Princess Theatre becomes the scene of an "accidental" poisoning, the city's most stylish lady detective finds herself surrounded by satin, rivalry and deceit. Between a visiting troupe from Castlemaine and a suspicious tray of almond cakes, she must dance her way through envy, ambition and a distinct whiff of arsenic to unmask the culprit before the curtain falls. The Ballerina's Revenge is a witty, glamorous 1920s whodunit of sabotage, sugar and satin — starring an irresistibly stylish sleuth who takes her cases, and her cake, very seriously.
ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is an original 1920s-style mystery written in the classic tradition — an entirely fictional story and our own invention. Any resemblance to real persons or events is coincidental. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.
💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS
Between a jealous rival, a very disciplined appetite, and a tray of almond cakes, the poison was hiding in plain sight the whole time. Would you have refused the cake — or trusted your hostess and taken a bite? 🕵️
🕰️ CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
02:00 The Cakes from Castlemaine
12:33 Lorna in Bed
23:46 Almonds and Other Extracts
33:10 A Very Disciplined Appetite
42:52 Dress Rehearsal
50:57 Curtain
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Written by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.
🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
glamorous lady detective mystery, 1920s Melbourne mystery, ballet murder mystery, poisoned cake mystery, arsenic poisoning mystery, jazz age mystery audiobook, theatre murder mystery, cosy mystery audiobook, prima ballerina mystery, Australian mystery audiobook, witty female detective, golden age mystery audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook, classic whodunit audiobook, glamorous 1920s whodunit
🏷️ HASHTAGS
#NocturnalTales #ClassicMystery #GoldenAgeMystery #CosyMystery #1920sMystery #BalletMystery #FemaleDetective #Whodunnit1 hr 5 min - The Coin of Dionysius by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)
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Tonight the Archive opens on a detective unlike any other: a man who solves his cases entirely without sight. On a wet night, a struggling inquiry agent named Louis Carlyle needs one thing before morning — an ancient Greek silver coin authenticated, a genuine coin of Dionysius, because an arrest depends on whether it is real or a forgery; he takes it to the finest numismatist he can find, and discovers that the expert is an old friend he has not seen in twenty years, a man who has since gone completely blind: Max Carrados. And the blind man takes the small silver coin between his fingers and reads from it a crime that no one with eyes had seen. This is "The Coin of Dionysius," the very first Max Carrados story — George Orwell counted the Carrados tales among the only detective stories since Poe worth re-reading, and this is where it all begins — presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Ernest Bramah wrote it, from the Midnight Archive, Nocturnal Tales' library of the classic detective stories that built the genre.
ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Coin of Dionysius by Ernest Bramah, first published in 1914 and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.
🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXT
The Archive is deep — more Max Carrados? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Arsène Lupin? Violet Strange? 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
A blind detective reads a forgery by touch alone — noticing what everyone with working eyes looked straight past. What can you understand better with your eyes closed than open? 🕵️
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🧾 CREDITS
Story by Ernest Bramah (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.
🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
ernest bramah audiobook, max carrados audiobook, the coin of dionysius audiobook, blind detective mystery, louis carlyle, coin forgery mystery, first max carrados story, edwardian mystery audiobook, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, full-length classic audiobook, unabridged classic mystery42 min - The Man Who Missed Last Orders | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)
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Dublin, a wet September, and Captain Arthur is running his agency short-handed: Anne away, the spaniel Pip banished to Blackrock, and a note in his own handwriting that he cannot remember writing, initialled R.K. He had gone out the night before for one drink only — which became five — at the Long Hall, and somewhere in that companionable haze he agreed to help a mild, wire-spectacled young man named Eamon. By morning, Eamon has not gone home. A witness swears he saw Eamon step through the Drury Street door of the covered market just before ten, in his dark overcoat, minutes before violence in the vaults below. But the coat Eamon was wearing was not his own — and the man who lent it, Ronan Kellett, narrow-faced and composed, with very pale grey eyes, has a habit of turning up wherever Arthur happens to be. To clear his friend, Arthur must prove the whole case rests on a witness who saw a coat and never a face, and admit that the fifth pint did not stop him noticing the frayed cuff, only from realising, in time, what it meant. The Man Who Missed Last Orders is an original Golden Age-style mystery of mistaken identity, borrowed coats, and a quiet Dublin agency learning its trade, part of the Arthur, Anne and Pip mysteries.
ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is an original Golden Age-style mystery presented as a respectful homage to classic detective fiction. All characters and events in this story are fictional. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.
💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS
A witness swore he saw the man — but he really only saw the coat. How often do we "recognise" someone from a hat, an overcoat, a walk, and never once look at the face? 🕵️
🕒 CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
01:25 Chapter I: The Unreasonable Morning
13:27 Chapter II: One Drink Only
25:59 Chapter III: The Borrowed Coat
37:54 Chapter IV: The Man in the Mirror
50:44 Chapter V: Behind the Shutters
1:04:22 Chapter VI: The Coat on the Wrong Man
1:16:42 Epilogue: The Other Desk
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🧾 CREDITS
Written by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.
🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
Captain Arthur Anne Foster, Dublin mystery audiobook, mistaken identity mystery, borrowed coat mystery, wrongly accused mystery, Dublin pub mystery, detective agency mystery, 1920s Dublin mystery, Pip the spaniel mystery, unreliable witness mystery, golden age mystery audiobook, cosy detective story, classic whodunit audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook1 hr 27 min - The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step by Catherine Louisa Pirkis | Loveday Brooke Audiobook📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)
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On Christmas Eve, £30,000 worth of jewellery vanishes from Craigen Court. A window was unfastened from inside, the safe was left unlocked, and the thief chalked a mocking message across its empty door: TO BE LET, UNFURNISHED. Suspicion settles upon Stephanie Delcroix, the frightened French maid who held the key. Scotland Yard searches for her lovers, certain the case is simple. Then Loveday Brooke notices a second story in the morning paper. Sixty miles away, a black leather bag has appeared on an elderly spinster's doorstep. It contains a clergyman's belongings and a melodramatic farewell note from a ruined priest whose body cannot be found. The police dismiss it as a tasteless hoax. Everyone else sees a jewel robbery and a practical joke. Loveday sees the same theatrical hand behind both. Undercover below stairs, she follows a book of comic recitations and a vanished amateur actor instead of the obvious suspect. First published in 1893, this complete and unabridged story introduced Loveday Brooke.
ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, first published in 1893 and now in the public domain. Every word of the story 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 — more Loveday Brooke? Lady Molly? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Arsène Lupin? Father Brown? Martin Hewitt? 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
Would you have connected an enormous jewel robbery with a ridiculous black-bag hoax printed elsewhere in the same newspaper? What small detail would have made you suspect the two stories belonged together? 🕵️
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🧾 CREDITS
Story by Catherine Louisa Pirkis (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.
🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
Catherine Louisa Pirkis audiobook, Black Bag Left on a Door-Step audiobook, Loveday Brooke mystery, Loveday Brooke audiobook, lady detective audiobook, Victorian female detective, early woman detective fiction, Craigen Court jewel robbery, country house robbery mystery, black leather bag mystery, stolen jewellery detective story, French maid accused, female private detective, classic British mystery, public domain audiobook1 hr 3 min - The Second Revolver | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook📌 Patreon - ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)
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Athens, 1932. Three thousand people crowd outside the Criminal Court to watch four accused people fight for their lives: a beautiful young widow, her formidable mother, a frightened nephew and the servant nobody expects to be believed. All four have confessed to some part of a brutal killing. All four have contradicted one another. Then Inspector Markou receives an anonymous message: ASK WHO FIRED THE SECOND SHOT. The confessed weapon has two discharged chambers, two pieces of metal were recovered from the victim, and a newly discovered bullet in the bedroom window came from another revolver. Yet the neighbour who heard the killing insists there was only one shot - and before he can explain, someone tries to silence him inside the courthouse. Between a brass key hidden in a servant's hand, a scarred stranger in the gallery, an empty grave and a trial that has become Athens's favourite entertainment, the Belgian Detective must discover what really happened in the Harokopou house - and why every accused person would rather accept a lie than tell the same truth. The Second Revolver is an original Golden Age-style courtroom mystery about false confessions, public spectacle and the dangerous distance between the story a city wants and the evidence it refuses to see.
ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is an original work of historical mystery fiction inspired by the 1931 Harokopou crime and the trial that followed in Athens. The historical murder of Dimitrios Athanassopoulos, the accused household and the extraordinary public fascination with the case were real. The detective, the second revolver, the ballistics puzzle and the solution presented here are fictional. Names, dialogue and events have been altered or invented. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.
💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS
Four people confess, but the physical evidence says their stories cannot all be true. When a confession and a bullet disagree, which one would you trust - and why might an innocent person choose to confess? 🕵️
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Written by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.
🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
Belgian detective mystery audiobook, Athens courtroom mystery, 1930s Greek murder mystery, second revolver mystery, one shot two bullets mystery, four confessions mystery, Harokopou crime inspired, historical true crime fiction, sensational murder trial story, courtroom detective audiobook, golden age mystery audiobook, interwar Athens mystery, impossible ballistics mystery, false confession mystery, full-length mystery audiobook
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#NocturnalTales #ClassicMystery #GoldenAgeMystery #FullAudiobook #CourtroomMystery #HistoricalMystery #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit1 hr 7 min - The Queer Feet by G. K. Chesterton | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)
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At the Vernon Hotel, twelve gentlemen sit down to the annual dinner of an absurdly exclusive club called The Twelve True Fishermen — twelve members, twelve seats, and a set of silver fish knives and forks so precious the club is half-defined by them; and in a small dark office off the passage a little priest sits alone, writing, and hears something strange: a pair of feet passing up and down the lighted corridor outside, walking at one moment with the swift deference of a servant and at the next with the slow, easy swagger of a gentleman — the same feet, the same man, changing. Nobody has cried out. Nothing appears to be missing. There is nothing at all to investigate, except a sound, and a small priest in a dark room who listens his way straight to the heart of a perfect crime. With Father Brown comes the return of an old acquaintance last met in "The Blue Cross," and one of the most elegant thefts in all detective fiction — presented complete and unabridged, exactly as G. K. Chesterton wrote it, from the Midnight Archive, Nocturnal Tales' library of the classic detective stories that built the genre.
ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Queer Feet by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1910 and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.
🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXT
The Archive is deep — more Father Brown? Sherlock Holmes? Lady Molly? Arsène Lupin? Martin Hewitt? Violet Strange? 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
Father Brown solves it by hearing what a walk sounds like — a servant's step and a gentleman's swagger worn by the same man. How much of who we appear to be is just posture, tone, and the way we move through a room? 🕵️
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🧾 CREDITS
Story by G. K. Chesterton (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.
🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
g k chesterton audiobook, father brown audiobook, the queer feet audiobook, the innocence of father brown, flambeau story, twelve true fishermen, hotel theft mystery, silver fish knives, edwardian mystery audiobook, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, full-length classic audiobook, unabridged classic mystery54 min - The Countess in the Frame | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook
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Dublin, and the young Arthur & Anne detective agency takes its second client: Mrs Vale, a handsome, iron-composed widow whose impractical nephew Julian has just announced his engagement to a Hungarian countess. Countess Ilona Várady is staying at the Shelbourne — though not, it seems, as an ordinary guest, but as a companion and interpreter. The aunt suspects a common fortune-hunter.
What Arthur, Anne and Pip uncover is stranger and far cleverer: a three-afternoon exhibition of portrait miniatures on Merrion Square, a dealer with a smooth manner, and a crate booked for the evening mailboat from Dún Laoghaire. It is the countess herself who leans close to a glass case and quietly announces that the exquisite little portrait within is not the one that stood there before. A chip in the glass that has somehow healed. A landscape hung to distract the eye. And a crisp new pound note that could not possibly have changed hands on the day everyone swears it did.
The Countess in the Frame is the seventh volume of the Arthur, Anne and Pip mysteries — an original Golden Age-style story of art forgery, sharp eyes, and a partnership settling at last behind its second desk.The seven Captain Hastings, Anne and Pip stories, in chronological order:
- The Case of the Unwitting Detective
- The Bridegroom Who Mislaid Himself
- The Corpse at the Costume Ball
- Pip and the Bell at Whitehaven
- The Stag’s Head Has Lost His Crown
- The Favourite Who Refused to Run
The Countess in the Frame
ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is an original Golden Age-style mystery presented as a respectful homage to classic detective fiction. All characters and events in this story are fictional. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.
💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS
A forged miniature nearly sailed for the Continent, and it was a borrowed countess with a sharp eye — not the detective — who saw the swap first. When the cleverest person in the room is the one everyone underestimated, how often does the real solution walk in as somebody's fiancée? 🕵️
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Captain Arthur Anne Foster, Dublin mystery audiobook, art forgery mystery, portrait miniature mystery, fake countess mystery, Shelbourne hotel mystery, detective agency mystery, 1920s Dublin mystery, spaniel detective sidekick, Pip the spaniel mystery, romantic mystery audiobook, golden age mystery audiobook, cosy detective story, classic whodunit audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook
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#NocturnalTales #ClassicMystery #GoldenAgeMystery #FullAudiobook #DublinMystery #CosyMystery #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit1 hr 28 min - The Woman at the Window | An English Village Mystery Audiobook-📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)
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On a pale March afternoon, Laura Vale comes to a sharp-eyed village sleuth with a frightened confession. Her husband Henry is jealous, suspicious and cruel. He has discovered the foolish letters she exchanged with Gerald Fenwick, a handsome young mechanic, and now he watches her, opens her post and smiles as he warns that women who make fools of men sometimes come to bad ends. The next night Henry Vale is stabbed in the lane beyond Larkspur Cottage. Laura says she saw two men struggling from her upstairs window. Gerald is found walking towards the neighbouring town with blood on his cuff and Laura's letters in his pocket. He had threatened Henry the evening before. The village has its murderer before breakfast. But moonlight is theatrical, windows are public stages, and letters preserved in a locked drawer can tell precisely the story somebody wants the police to believe. Between an estranged cousin, a missing knife, a torn button, a pawn ticket and another woman seen in the lane wearing white fur, the village sleuth begins to suspect that too many frightened people arrived at the same place that night — each hiding a different piece of the truth. The Woman at the Window is an original Golden Age-style village mystery about jealousy, romantic fantasy and the dangerous moment when words written carelessly are treated as proof of murder.
ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is an original work of historical mystery fiction presented as a respectful homage to classic detective fiction and inspired by the 1922 Thompson-Bywaters case, in which private letters became central evidence in a sensational murder trial. The characters, English village setting, investigation and solution presented here are entirely fictional. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.
💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS
Laura's private letters sound damning once a murder has taken place — but should words written in fantasy ever be treated as proof of criminal intent? Where would you draw the line between foolish language and genuine evidence? 🕵️
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Written by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.
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English village mystery audiobook, woman at the window mystery, 1920s murder mystery, love letters murder mystery, jealous husband mystery, young lover accused, country lane murder, village sleuth mystery, sharp-eyed spinster detective, cosy golden age mystery, historical crime inspired fiction, Edith Thompson inspired story, atmospheric British mystery, full-length mystery audiobook
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#NocturnalTales #ClassicMystery #GoldenAgeMystery #FullAudiobook #VillageMystery #CosyMystery #HistoricalMystery #Whodunnit1 hr 17 min - The Man in the Inverness Cape by Baroness Orczy | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook
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It begins with something the newspapers swore was impossible: a man who simply vanishes. On a foggy February afternoon, Mr. Leonard Marvell walks out into the London streets and is never seen again — no body, no ransom, no trace — and his devoted sister goes to Scotland Yard in a state of terror; the last person known to have been near him was a tall figure in an Inverness cape, glimpsed through the murk, and the more the Yard's men pull at the threads the more the whole affair tightens into a knot they cannot loosen. So they do what they have grudgingly learned to do — they hand it to Lady Molly, the brilliant, elegant head of the Female Department, who sees the shape of the truth long before the men around her will admit it is there. From Baroness Orczy, the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, comes another jewel of Edwardian detection and one of the very first great female detectives in fiction, presented complete and unabridged, exactly as she wrote it, from the Midnight Archive, Nocturnal Tales' library of the classic detective stories that built the genre.
ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Man in the Inverness Cape by Baroness Orczy, first published in 1910 and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.
🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXT
The Archive is deep — more Lady Molly? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Arsène Lupin? Martin Hewitt? Violet Strange? 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
A man vanishes with no body and no trace, and a tall figure in a cape is the only clue. Do you think a person can truly disappear — or is "impossible" just a puzzle no one has looked at correctly yet? 🕵️
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Story by Baroness Orczy (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.
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About Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
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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.