Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories

01:03:17

A Murder at the Flower Show | An English Village...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/05

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesThe annual horticultural exhibition is under way in the grounds of the great house, the marquee smells of cut grass and rivalry, and a Major's prize roses have quite obviously been bought rather than grown. Then an elderly lady who has waited thirty-four years for an answer accuses somebody of cheating, takes a paper cup of plain water, says two words — "He knew" — and is dead before the

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01:27:03

A Castle in Brittany & The Bag of Sand by Baroness...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/04

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesA double bill tonight: two complete cases for Lady Molly, the brilliant head of the Female Department of Scotland Yard.🏰 A CASTLE IN BRITTANYLady Molly and her companion Mary have gone abroad on a well-earned holiday — to Porhoët, an enchanting village hidden in a Breton valley, with a convent, a quaint church and a kindly Curé. This, Mary insists, is emphatically not a professional case

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01:11:55

The Secret of the Bell Tree | The Belgian Detective...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/03

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesSome woods turn sinister only after something dreadful has happened in them. Hagley Wood was never one of those — it had an air of knowing too much from the very first. The Belgian Detective and his loyal companion Arthur come at the request of Sir Claud Wychbury, whose estate borders the trees and whose letter arrived three days before the discovery: "I require your discretion more than

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00:44:28

The Invisible Man by G. K. Chesterton | The Midnight...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/02

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesA small, rich inventor named Isidore Smythe is being threatened by a rival he cannot see. Letters appear inside a locked flat. Words are scrawled across a shop window while a room full of people sit a few feet away. Nobody sees anyone come; nobody sees anyone go. So a guard is set: four separate witnesses take up their posts around a tower of flats in Camden Town, watching every entrance

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00:52:42

An Intangible Clue by Anna Katharine Green | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/08/01

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesA box of embroidered linen arrives with the wrong name upon it. A limousine draws up outside a house of mourning. And the silliest little belle of the season walks into a murder room and begins, very sweetly, to count the marks upon the floor. Violet Strange is a petite society debutante who glitters through New York's ballrooms by night and is, in the strictest secrecy, a private

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01:28:38

The Knockout Who Would Not Fall | The Belgian...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/31

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesEngland, the summer of 1934, and the whole country has discovered a subject it knows nothing whatever about and discusses with enormous enthusiasm: women's boxing. Gloria "The Knockout" Moretti and Ruthless Ruth Rowan trade insults for the newsreel cameras, the boxing authorities refuse to recognise the contest, the borough has threatened to ban it, and every attempt to suppress the bout

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00:34:53

The Arrest of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/30

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesThe transatlantic steamship La Provence is four days out from France and bound for New York when her wireless brings a message that turns the crossing into a trap: Arsène Lupin is on board — first class, blond hair, a wound on the right forearm, travelling under the name R — and then the wireless goes dead. Suddenly a shipful of elegant strangers begins looking very hard at one another:

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01:31:08

The Adventure of the Dead Man's Violin | An Original...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/29

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesLondon, November 1898. A black-edged note arrives at Baker Street before breakfast: "My brother has been found dead. Last night I heard him playing in a locked and empty room. May I come to you at ten?" So begins one of the strangest puzzles ever laid before Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson — for Theodore Henshaw is unquestionably dead, and yet his sister Caroline swears she heard his

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00:52:37

The Ides of March by E. W. Hornung | The Midnight...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/28

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesTonight, for once, we are not on the side of the law. A desperate young man has lost more at the card table than he can possibly pay; ruined, ashamed and out of options, he goes to the one man he still believes might save him — A. J. Raffles, gentleman, celebrated cricketer, and the most welcome guest in the best houses in London. Raffles listens to the confession with perfect sympathy,

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01:05:36

The Twelfth Stroke | The Belgian Detective Mystery...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/27

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesBologna, 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

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01:04:06

The Ballerina's Revenge | A Glamorous Lady Detective...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/26

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesA 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

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00:41:32

The Coin of Dionysius by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/25

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesTonight 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,

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01:26:57

The Man Who Missed Last Orders | A Captain Arthur &...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/24

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesDublin, 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

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01:02:05

The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step by Catherine Louisa...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/23

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesOn 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

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01:06:57

The Second Revolver | The Belgian Detective Mystery...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/22

📌 Patreon - ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesAthens, 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

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00:53:07

The Queer Feet by G. K. Chesterton | The Midnight...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/21

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesAt 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

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01:27:21

The Countess in the Frame | A Captain Arthur & Anne...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/20

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesDublin, 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

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01:16:07

The Woman at the Window | An English Village Mystery...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/19

-📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesOn 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

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00:48:28

The Man in the Inverness Cape by Baroness Orczy | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/18

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesIt 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

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01:29:53

The Favourite Who Refused to Run | A Captain Arthur &...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/07/17

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesDublin, and a decision that arrives at breakfast wearing the wholly unreasonable appearance of having been obvious all along: Captain Arthur will not go back to London. He will stay — and open a detective agency of his own. A brass plate. An office above a stationer's. A row of freshly sharpened pencils. And a small glove-stealing spaniel named Pip, already eating the corner of the

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