Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories

01:07:38

The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Bramah |...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/15

📌 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 tenant has fled it. The landlord's agent would very much like the business settled before the story

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01:13:44

The Ghost of Schloss Eberwald | The Belgian Detective...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/14

📌 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 Belgian Detective have been summoned by an old acquaintance, the Baroness Adelheid von Eberwald, whose

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01:00:49

The Comedy at Fountain Cottage by Ernest Bramah | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/13

📌 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 not ironic. It really is a comedy.Max Carrados telephones the inquiry agent Carlyle at his office one

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00:56:31

The Gift of the Emperor by E. W. Hornung | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/12

📌 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 European monarch has sent Queen Victoria a gift: a pearl of quite extraordinary value, travelling home by steamer under discreet guard. The whole affair has been managed with enormous care and almost no

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02:17:55

The Bathtub Enigma | The Belgian Detective Mystery...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/11

📌 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 evening, the door was locked from within, and the water was long cold by the time anybody thought to

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00:59:20

The Moabite Cipher by R. Austin Freeman | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/10

📌 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 of people. In the confusion a scrap of paper covered in strange characters passes from hand to hand,

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01:14:23

The Two Confessions | The Belgian Detective Mystery...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/09

📌 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.comNew Orleans, the spring of nineteen thirty-three. There are certain cities which, even before one has committed a crime in them, seem already to know the secret.Arthur and the Belgian Detective have come for a rest. They have been in the city less than four hours when the

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00:45:56

A Day's Folly by Baroness Orczy | The Midnight...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/08

📌 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 assistant named Jane Turner is found in her lodgings at Weston, tied to a chair with a rope, a shawl

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01:19:35

The Last Portrait | The Belgian Detective Mystery...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/07

📌 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.comMexico City, the summer of nineteen twenty-eight. A banquet is given for the man who is about to become President — a soldier who won a civil war, lost an arm doing it, and has collected enemies ever since.Arthur is a guest at that dinner, seated beside the Belgian

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01:06:31

The Knight's Cross Signal Problem by Ernest Bramah |...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/06

📌 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 is a railway disaster. A signal was passed at danger on a stretch of suburban line, two trains met, and

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01:12:35

Wilful Murder & Nine Points of the Law by E. W....

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/05

📌 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 cases tonight from the gentleman thief who has drawn more requests than anybody else in the Archive.WILFUL MURDER is the darkest thing in the whole collection. Bunny warns us at the outset that most of their robberies will not bear telling at length. This one will —

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02:01:39

The Mystery at Kensington Palace (Reimagined Edition)...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/04

📌 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 — this case first appeared in the second volume of our collected mysteries. We have gone back through it, corrected it, and recorded it properly, so it can be heard as it was always meant to be heard.London, May 1935, at the very height of the

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00:54:49

The Ghost of Fountain Lane by Catherine Louisa Pirkis...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/03

📌 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.comSomebody has got hold of Miss Loveday Brooke's private address, which she had given strict orders was to be handed to nobody at all. Her holiday lasts precisely as long as it takes to read the note.In a quiet lane outside Brighton, a respectable household is being haunted

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00:54:09

The City of Broken Angels | A Veronica Lakewood...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/02

📌 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.comLos Angeles after midnight. The white buildings turn grey, the palm trees turn black, and the city finally stops pretending.Veronica Lakewood likes it better that way. At least now it is being honest, she says.She and Arthur have left a party in Beverly Hills shortly

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01:05:14

The Aluminium Dagger by R. Austin Freeman | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/01

📌 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 bell rings in the small hours, and Dr Jervis finds himself doing the one thing he thought he had left behind when he gave up medicine for the law: answering an urgent summons in the dark.A man lies dead in his own sitting room with a dagger of very curious manufacture

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01:17:51

The Murder Beneath the African Moon | The Belgian...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/31

📌 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.comKenya, 1938. The Muthaiga Club, the Ngong road, and a set of transplanted English aristocrats who travelled six thousand miles in order to behave in ways they could never have got away with at home.Arthur arrives convinced that half the British population of Nairobi is

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01:03:42

The Clever Mrs Straithwaite by Ernest Bramah | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/30

📌 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.comMr Carlyle arrives at The Turrets in the very best possible spirits: white spats, a gardenia in the buttonhole, and the bustling importance of a man who is certain he has brought his friend a straightforward piece of business.A society lady's pearl necklace, worth five

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01:01:18

The Dreaming Lady by Anna Katharine Green | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/29

📌 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 will has vanished.Not stolen from a safe. Not burned in a grate. Simply gone — from a house where it must still be, leaving a family facing ruin and a set of children whose entire future turns on a single sheet of paper that nobody can find.Everyone in that household has

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01:04:45

The Ghost at the Opera | The Belgian Detective...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/28

📌 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 London in November. A fog that makes even respectable streets look faintly conspiratorial. And an opera house where one box has stayed locked for twenty-four years. Box Seventeen belonged to Lady

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00:54:49

Drawn Daggers by C. L. Pirkis | The Midnight Archive...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/27

📌 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 necklace and wishes the matter hushed up. Obvious, says Mr. Dyer. A child could explain it.The other

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