Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories

01:10:49

The Ardlamont Shot | The Belgian Detective Mystery...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/26

📌 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 estate on the Cowal peninsula: his godson Cecil, who inherited money at twenty-one and spent it

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00:55:20

The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage by Ernest Bramah |...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/25

📌 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 to the blind detective with something he cannot prove and cannot forget. His sister Millicent is

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01:06:22

The Island of the Dead | The Belgian Detective...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/24

📌 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 proprietor smiles a little too readily when he assures you that the little motor launch is perfectly

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00:48:15

The Anthropologist at Large by R. Austin Freeman |...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/23

📌 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 scientist in detective fiction.Thorndyke is not a newspaper reader. He considers the form a disorderly

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00:43:07

The Blue Sequin by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/22

📌 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 Thorndyke, created by R. Austin Freeman in 1909: a medical man and a barrister, and the first true

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01:14:16

The Moscow Sabotage | The Belgian Detective Mystery...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/21

📌 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 have simply broken down.A British engineer is found shot behind his own locked office door. The window

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00:41:38

The Frewin Miniatures by Baroness Orczy | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/20

📌 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 Blatchley House, near Brighton. His one remaining joy is his collection — above all the eight

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01:33:07

The Pedigree of Pip | A Captain Arthur & Anne Foster...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/19

📌 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 green ribbon on his collar. Pip objects — not to patriotism, but to ornament.Before luncheon, the

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01:39:50

The Alpine Snowbound Secrets (Reimagined Edition) |...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/17

📌 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, richer, and with far more of the mountain in it.High in the Alps, where the air is keen with pine and the

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00:38:28

Le Premier Pas by E. W. Hornung | The Midnight...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/16

📌 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 Tonight, the story that answers a question we left hanging. When we opened the Raffles stories with "The Ides of March," he mentioned, almost in passing, an unreported incident on a certain

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01:52:37

The Game Played in the Dark & The Tilling Shaw...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/15

📌 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.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 begins with Inspector Beedel making conversation: nothing happens abroad, he says, without leaving some

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01:16:23

The Poison Between Them | The Belgian Detective...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/14

📌 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.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 loving in the wrong way.London, March 1936. On a wet evening outside the Savoy, a young clergyman stops

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01:24:37

The Irish-Tweed Coat & The Fordwych Castle Mystery by...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/13

📌 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 join any society, club or union, is found in his own garden with a stiletto between his shoulder blades

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01:26:32

The Telegram from Baldonnel | A Captain Arthur & Anne...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/12

📌 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 famous men. Now a valuer preparing the case for an American collector has found the lining pulled away

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01:58:45

Missing! & A Princess's Vengeance by C. L. Pirkis |...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/11

📌 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 simply not come back — and by the time the handbill reaches the Lynch Court office, she has been gone

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01:06:28

The Mask Beneath the Glass | The Belgian Detective...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/10

📌 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 pronounces the whole thing excessive. Then a shot is fired inside the Crystal Gallery — and in a city

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00:42:38

The Resident Patient by Arthur Conan Doyle | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/09

📌 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 Blessington — and Blessington is afraid of something. Then a Russian nobleman calls at Brook Street

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01:22:42

Gentlemen and Players & A Costume Piece by E. W....

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/08

📌 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 brilliant field and perhaps the finest slow bowler of his decade — and he takes remarkably little

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01:04:57

The Mystery of the Locked Mail Van | A Belgian...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/07

📌 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 country, the van is found bolted from within. One clerk lies dead, the other gravely wounded, and the

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01:18:25

The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor by Ernest Bramah...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/06

📌 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 the palms in the great circular hall, doing nothing at all — or so it appears. What he is actually doing

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