Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories

📌 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, October 1926. Sir Alistair Wilkes claims descent from the notorious John Wilkes, whose quarrels with George III's government scandalised eighteenth-century England, and he has invited the Belgian Detective and our narrator to dine in Belgrave Square. He promises the resurrection of a scandal that has slept for a hundred and sixty years.

Around his table: his second wife; his daughter by his first marriage; a former Under-Secretary at the Home Office; a red-faced Member of Parliament; a newspaper proprietor; an historian; and a wealthy American widow. Sir Alistair has arranged the seating so that they will quarrel. They do.

Then he announces that he holds evidence of a secret arrangement behind the famous Number Forty-Five, and that certain reputations were purchased at the expense of constitutional liberty. The papers are in a dispatch box in the library, in full view of everyone.

He withdraws to his study to take a telephone call and locks the door behind him. The minutes pass. When the door is forced, Sir Alistair lies dead beside his desk — and documents have vanished from a box that nobody touched.

ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
This is an original mystery written by Nocturnal Tales, inspired by the spirit of the great Golden Age crime writers and by the real eighteenth-century radical John Wilkes — but the plot, characters and text are entirely our own creation. Sir Alistair Wilkes and every character in this story are fictional. A short historical epilogue at the end tells the true story of John Wilkes and Number Forty-Five. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.

💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS
A locked study, a cut telephone wire, and a box watched by everyone in the room. Who did you suspect first? 🕵️

🕒 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:57 - Chapter One - A Most Indecent Invitation
14:36 - Chapter Two - The Price of Silence
26:19 - Chapter Three - A Lady of Questionable Reputation
37:27 - Chapter Four - The Pension of a Dead Woman
49:20 - Chapter Five - The Gentleman Who Was Never There
1:01:41 - Chapter Six - The Forty-Fifth Man
1:12:42 - Historical Epilogue - John Wilkes and the Price of Liberty
1:19:53 - Closing

📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99
📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchase
https://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383
🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF included
https://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2

❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS
📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early
https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales
🌐 Website — every story, free, no account needed
https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com
📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenue
https://rumble.com/c/c-7820714
❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time support
https://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales
🎧 Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848

🧾 CREDITS
Written by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.

🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
Belgian Detective mystery audiobook, locked room mystery, London 1926, Belgrave Square dinner party murder, John Wilkes, Number Forty-Five, The North Briton, historical epilogue, golden age mystery audiobook, full-length mystery audiobook

🏷️ HASHTAGS
#NocturnalTales #ClassicMystery #GoldenAgeMystery #FullAudiobook #LockedRoomMystery #1920sMystery #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit

📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($3.99/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 long evening with Judith Lee — two of her cases, back to back, because you have made it very clear that you cannot have too much of her.

Judith Lee, the teacher of the deaf who reads lips across a crowded room, in two cases: two young people whispering in a Brompton Road tea-shop at the start of the Fulham Mystery, and a ball off Leicester Square that becomes the most dangerous adventure she ever told.

ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
A complete, unabridged reading of Was It by Chance Only? and The Restaurant Napolitain by Richard Marsh, from Judith Lee: Some Pages from Her Life (1912), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.

💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS
Chance, or something else? Where do you think the accident ended in tonight's first case? 🕵️

🕒 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
02:10 - Part One - Was It by Chance Only?
35:58 - Part Two - Was It by Chance Only?
1:07:32 - Interlude
1:08:05 - Part One - The Restaurant Napolitain
1:38:00 - Part Two - The Restaurant Napolitain
2:07:56 - Closing

📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99
📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchase
https://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383
🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF included
https://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2

❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS
📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early
https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales
🌐 Website — every story, free, no account needed
https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com
📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenue
https://rumble.com/c/c-7820714
❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time support
https://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales
🎧 Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848

🧾 CREDITS
Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Richard Marsh (public domain).

🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
Judith Lee audiobook, Richard Marsh, lip-reading detective, Edwardian lady detective, Judith Lee: Some Pages from Her Life 1912, the Fulham Mystery, Leicester Square, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery

🏷️ HASHTAGS
#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #JudithLee #RichardMarsh #LadyDetective #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain

📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month)<br>https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales<br>🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password.<br>https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com<br><br>London, January 1895. Mr Henry Fletcher, a respectable barrister, arrives at Baker Street a little after half past nine in the morning, in a borrowed coat, having already been out on his own inquiry for nearly two hours.<br><br>The night before, he saw a man he knew, called him by name, and received an answer. The last place he had seen that name written was a coffin plate. He followed the man through a front door marked nineteen, and left that house in a hurry, by a back stair, without his coat or his hat.<br><br>This morning he brought a constable to show him the door. Number nineteen has no front door. It has been bricked up for years.<br><br>An hour ago his coat came back to his chambers by district messenger, with his gloves, his handkerchief and his keys still in the pockets — and a pencilled note from a woman, about a copied key and a brother who needs protection. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson have a house to find, and a way into it that no longer exists.<br><br>ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS<br>This is an original Sherlock Holmes story written by Nocturnal Tales — it is not one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's. Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson and Baker Street are in the public domain; the plot, the other characters and the text are entirely our own creation. All characters and events in this story are fictional. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied.<br><br>💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS<br>A door that was there last night and bricked up this morning. What was your first theory? 🕵️<br><br>🕒 CHAPTERS<br>00:00 - Introduction<br>01:49 - Chapter One - A Colleague Returns<br>15:19 - Chapter Two - What the Coat Contained<br>26:55 - Chapter Three - Nineteen and Twenty-one<br>40:05 - Chapter Four - The Men upon the List<br>51:34 - Chapter Five - Faces on Glass<br>1:04:47 - Chapter Six - The Singer Upstairs<br>1:16:50 - Chapter Seven - The Borrowed Key<br>1:30:42 - Chapter Eight - The Man Who Was Free<br>1:43:39 - Chapter Nine - Two Staircases<br>1:55:28 - Chapter Ten - The Locked Rooms<br>2:07:48 - Chapter Eleven - Behind the Brickwork<br>2:20:47 - Chapter Twelve - Those Who Must Return<br>2:35:34 - Closing<br><br>📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99<br>📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table &amp; Archive Society, or one-time purchase<br>https://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383<br>🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF included<br>https://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2<br><br>❤️ SUPPORT &amp; LISTENING OPTIONS<br>📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early<br>https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales<br>🌐 Website — every story, free, no account needed<br>https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com<br>📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenue<br>https://rumble.com/c/c-7820714<br>❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time support<br>https://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales<br>🎧 Apple Podcasts<br>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848<br><br>🧾 CREDITS<br>Written by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.<br><br>🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS<br>Sherlock Holmes audiobook, original Sherlock Holmes mystery, Doctor Watson, Baker Street, Victorian London 1895, impossible door, man back from the dead, Inspector Gregson, full-length mystery audiobook<br><br>

📌 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 long evening with Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief — and a duel.

Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief, against the great English detective Herlock Sholmes — Maurice Leblanc's playful name for a certain Baker Street resident. A stolen antique lamp, a plea for help from Paris, and a letter from Lupin politely advising Sholmes to stay at home.

ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
A complete, unabridged reading of The Jewish Lamp by Maurice Leblanc, from Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (1908), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.

💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS
Lupin or Sholmes — whose side were you on by the end? 🕵️

🕒 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:50 - Part One - The Jewish Lamp
56:25 - Part Two - The Shipwreck
1:58:30 - Closing

📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99
📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchase
https://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383
🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF included
https://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2

❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS
📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early
https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales
🌐 Website — every story, free, no account needed
https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com
📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenue
https://rumble.com/c/c-7820714
❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time support
https://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales
🎧 Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848

🧾 CREDITS
Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by Maurice Leblanc (public domain).

🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
Arsène Lupin audiobook, Maurice Leblanc, gentleman thief, Herlock Sholmes, Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes 1908, The Jewish Lamp, Paris mystery, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery

🏷️ HASHTAGS
#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #ArseneLupin #MauriceLeblanc #GentlemanThief #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain

📌 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 long Halloween evening with Father Brown — four of his cases back to back, with his friend Flambeau beside him in every one.

Four cases for Father Brown and Flambeau on Halloween night: a Scottish castle stripped of every scrap of gold, a mysterious prince on an island among the reeds, a sun-worshipping prophet above an office by the Thames, and a frozen churchyard where a national hero lies buried.

ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
A complete, unabridged reading of The Honour of Israel Gow, The Sins of Prince Saradine, The Eye of Apollo and The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton, from The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries.

💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS
Four cases tonight. Which one did Father Brown solve before you even knew what the crime was? 🕵️

🕒 CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:44 - Part One - The Honour of Israel Gow
20:39 - Part Two - The Honour of Israel Gow
39:11 - Interlude
39:41 - Part One - The Sins of Prince Saradine
1:06:11 - Part Two - The Sins of Prince Saradine
1:28:58 - Interlude
1:29:26 - Part One - The Eye of Apollo
1:59:06 - Part Two - The Eye of Apollo
2:09:54 - Interlude
2:10:24 - Part One - The Sign of the Broken Sword
2:47:02 - Part Two - The Sign of the Broken Sword
2:55:36 - Closing

📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99
📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchase
https://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383
🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF included
https://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2

❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS
📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early
https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales
🌐 Website — every story, free, no account needed
https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com
📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenue
https://rumble.com/c/c-7820714
❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time support
https://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales
🎧 Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848

🧾 CREDITS
Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by G. K. Chesterton (public domain).

🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
Father Brown audiobook, G. K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown 1911, Flambeau, priest detective, Scottish castle mystery, Halloween mystery, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery

🏷️ HASHTAGS
#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #FatherBrown #GKChesterton #Halloween #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain