Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories

02:49:17

The Letter Anne Never Wrote | A Captain Arthur & Anne...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/10/05

📌 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.comDublin, 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

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00:42:33

The Hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton | The Midnight...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/10/04

📌 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.comA 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

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01:38:36

A Case of Premeditation by R. Austin Freeman | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/10/03

📌 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.comDr 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

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00:57:18

The Shanghai Room | The Belgian Detective Mystery...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/10/02

📌 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.comShanghai, 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

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01:40:02

Judith Lee: Conscience & Matched by Richard Marsh |...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/10/01

📌 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.comJudith 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

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02:59:46

The Lights of Ardnacrusha | A Captain Arthur & Anne...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/30

📌 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.comDublin, 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

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00:48:25

The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/29

📌 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.comSherlock 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

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01:01:03

The Passenger from Compartment Nine | The Belgian...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/28

📌 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.comParis, 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,

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00:58:27

The Secret of Dunstan's Tower by Ernest Bramah | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/27

📌 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.comAn 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

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01:52:05

The Case of Oscar Brodski by R. Austin Freeman | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/26

📌 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.comA 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

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03:06:41

The Ravenswood Mystery (Reimagined Edition) | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/25

📌 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.comAn 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

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01:03:10

The Murder at Troyte's Hill by Catherine Louisa...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/24

📌 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.comA 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

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01:05:05

The Secret of Cinnamon House | The Belgian Detective...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/23

📌 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.comCeylon, 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

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01:05:23

The Missing Actress Sensation by Ernest Bramah | The...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/22

📌 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.comA 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

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01:41:07

The Black Ribbon of Kilnaree Castle | A Captain...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/21

📌 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.comIreland, 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

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01:11:17

A Message from the Deep Sea by R. Austin Freeman |...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/20

📌 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.comIt 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

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01:18:41

No Sinecure & A Jubilee Present by E. W. Hornung |...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/19

📌 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.comTwo 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

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02:19:10

High Society Scandal | The Belgian Detective Mystery...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/18

📌 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.comMayfair 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,

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01:40:30

Judith Lee: The Man who cut off my Hair &...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/17

📌 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.comTonight, 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,

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01:05:43

The Girl Who Came Back from London | An English...

Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories ·

2026/09/16

📌 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.comAn 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

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