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. Our contact info: https://www.lavertyprod.ie/nocturnal-tales [email protected]
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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Another 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.
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The Woman in Their Stories | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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Sussex, 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 par...
Judith Lee: Isolda & 8 Elm Grove — Back Entrance by Richard Marsh | The Midnight Archive — A Judith Lee Mystery
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Judith 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 a...
The Man Who Was Too Fond of Funerals | An English Village Mystery Audiobook
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An 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 v...
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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A 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 s...
Doctor Thorndyke: The Man with the Nailed Shoes & The Stranger’s Latchkey by R. Austin Freeman
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A 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 l...
The Gentleman Arthur Saw | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook
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Dublin, 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...
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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A long evening with the blind detective, Max Carrados — three of his cases, one after another. You told us his quiet stories are among your favourites, so we are giving you time to stay with him.
The blind detective Max Carrados in three cases: a rare book that comes home with apologies, an old inventor and his calculating machine, and torpedo plans missin...
The Corpse from Constantinople | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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Constantinople 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 aboard the Caledonia, a British steamer bound for Piraeus and home, after a delicate matter involving a French diplomat, a missing emerald and a Bulgarian gentleman.
Among the passengers is Mrs Lavinia Cartwright: seventy, upright, dressed in...
Judith Lee: The Miracle & Auld Lang Syne by Richard Marsh | The Midnight Archive — A Judith Lee Mystery
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Judith 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, in two cases: a matchmaking miracle on the Casino terrace at Dieppe, and a darkened staircase in the East End where a single forgotten password could cost everything.
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The Manhattan Penthouse Murder | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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New York, November 1932. A thunderstorm over Manhattan, bread lines in the streets below, and Arthur and the Belgian Detective — a long way from a damp English autumn — invited to dinner forty floors above Fifth Avenue.
Their host is Silas V. Renshaw, a financier who has lost twenty-two million dollars since the Crash and can now afford only three motorcars, twelve servants and a...
The Flying Stars & The Wrong Shape by G. K. Chesterton | The Midnight Archive — A Father Brown Mystery
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Father Brown is back for a second Sunday in a row, with two early cases — and his old adversary Flambeau is in both of them.
Boxing Day near Putney, three famous diamonds and a Christmas pantomime; then a strange house on the North Road and a poet who writes about the East. Two early Father Brown cases, with Flambeau in both.
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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 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.
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The Last Table Before Midnight | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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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 reco...
The Mysterious Traveller, The Queen’s Necklace & Madame Imbert’s Safe by Maurice Leblanc | The Midnight Archive — An Arsène Lupin Mystery
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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.
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The Death at the Estancia | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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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...
The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle | The Midnight Archive — A Thinking Machine Mystery
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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: t...
The Letter Anne Never Wrote | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook
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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.
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The Hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton | The Midnight Archive — A Father Brown Mystery
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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 w...
A Case of Premeditation by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr Thorndyke Mystery
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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 int...
The Shanghai Room | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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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 criticisin...
Judith Lee: Conscience & Matched by Richard Marsh | The Midnight Archive
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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 arr...
The Lights of Ardnacrusha | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook
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Dublin, 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 agency.
She places a metal disc upon the blotter. The number 417 is stamped into it. It belonged to her son Patrick, killed the previous August in an explosion on the Shannon hy...
The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle | The Midnight Archive — A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
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Sherlock Holmes returns to the Archive. Several of you have written to ask where he has been, and one of you asked for this story by name — twice. So here it is.
September, and the equinoctial gales have set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind has screamed and the rain has beaten against the windows of Baker Street. Nobody sensible is...
The Passenger from Compartment Nine | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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Paris, a little after ten on a night of rain. The Gare de Lyon wrapped in steam beneath the electric lamps, doors slammed with unnecessary violence, and a polished sleeping car bound for Switzerland.
The Belgian Detective is travelling to Lausanne to settle what he calls, with some disdain, a little matter of family dishonesty. Arthur has the compartment next door.
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The Secret of Dunstan's Tower by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery
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An 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 occupation of his day at a moment's notice and apply himself entirely to somebody else's difficulty. Somebody has travelled a long way to ask him a question they have not asked anyb...
The Case of Oscar Brodski by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr Thorndyke Mystery
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A traveller in diamonds misses his train and calls at a house beside the line. That is all you need to know, because in a moment you are going to be told the rest.
That is the point of it. This is the first inverted detective story ever written. Freeman shows you the crime — who, how, and every precaution taken — and only then brin...
The Ravenswood Mystery (Reimagined Edition) | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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An English country house on a clear October morning in 1930, at the end of a long gravel drive bordered with beech trees. Red brick, tall chimneys, ivy on the walls — the kind of house that has seen a great deal and chosen to say nothing.
Sir Henry Ashwood has been found dead in his library. The door was locked, the windows fastened fro...
The Murder at Troyte's Hill by Catherine Louisa Pirkis | The Midnight Archive — A Loveday Brooke Mystery
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A 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 Court agency is about thirty, dresses in plain black, and enjoys the considerable professional advantage of being the sort of woman nobody bothers to watch. She uses it in this one m...
The Secret of Cinnamon House | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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Ceylon, nineteen thirty-six. Green hills, tea bushes in immaculate rows, ceiling fans producing a great deal more noise than wind, and a heat our narrator describes as approximately the temperature of boiling soup.
A planter has invited the Belgian Detective to his estate for the hospitality, with Arthur in tow, and turns out to have a rather different reason. Money has been leavi...
The Missing Actress Sensation by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery
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A first night in the West End, and a leading lady who does not appear. By morning the newspapers have a word for it, and the word is sensation.
Max Carrados has been blind for many years. He is also, as five separate listeners told us within three days of the last one, the detective you most want more of — so here he is a...
The Black Ribbon of Kilnaree Castle | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook
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Ireland, 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 that work respects railway timetables.
Captain Arthur, Anne Foster and a spaniel of settled opinions take the morning train out of Dublin for Waterford, bound for a small residential hotel in a grey tower above a be...
A Message from the Deep Sea by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr Thorndyke Mystery
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It 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 room with her throat cut. A man has already been arrested. There is a witness, there is a motive, and the police are perfectly satisfied.
Dr John Thorn...
No Sinecure & A Jubilee Present by E. W. Hornung | The Midnight Archive — A Raffles Double Bill
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Two cases from the second Raffles collection — the book E. W. Hornung wrote after the one we finished last week.
NO SINECURE is how it opens. Bunny is alone. He has served his sentence, he has come out to nothing at all, and he is reading the advertisement columns in the way men do when they have stopped expecting anything from life. One pa...
High Society Scandal | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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Mayfair in the late afternoon, and one of those stately London houses where the wealth is real and the display is not — a marble hall, dark polished wood, and the settled warmth of a place that has been lived in for a very long time.
The lady of the house is silver-haired, upright, and entirely composed until she is asked about her grandson...
Judith Lee: The Man who cut off my Hair & Eavesdropping at Interlaken by Richard Marsh | The Midnight Archive
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Tonight, somebody new — and one of you asked for her without knowing she existed. After our Loveday Brooke episodes, a listener wrote asking for more from Loveday and, in her words, the other female detectives. Here is one almost nobody has heard of.
That is the whole idea, and it is a remarkable one. Judith Lee does not investigate crimes. She overhears th...
The Girl Who Came Back from London | An English Village Mystery Audiobook
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An English village where nothing can happen without being known within twenty minutes at the post office, thirty minutes at the butcher's, and, at the very latest, before evensong.
A young woman has come home to Little Wycham after seven and a half years away, and the village has the news by half past eleven on Tuesday morning. She left the October af...
The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery
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It begins with Carlyle putting a question to his friend across the library: do you believe in ghosts, Max? He is not asking idly.
A block of flats has a haunted set. A tenant has fled it. The landlord's agent would very much like the business settled before the story reaches the newspapers, and the rents with it.
Max Carrados h...
The Ghost of Schloss Eberwald | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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A Bavarian mountainside in a snowstorm, and a castle on a black spur of rock with too many roofs and one red window burning beneath the highest of them.
Arthur and the Belgian Detective have been summoned by an old acquaintance, the Baroness Adelheid von Eberwald, whose letter was admirably brief. Somebody in her house wishes to frighten her. Unfortunately for them, she...
The Comedy at Fountain Cottage by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery
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A complete change of key. After signal boxes and railway disasters, this is Ernest Bramah's blind detective in his lightest and most mischievous register, and the title is not ironic. It really is a comedy.
Max Carrados telephones the inquiry agent Carlyle at his office one April morning, and Carlyle's face assumes its most amiable expression on recognising his friend's voice — which, if yo...
