Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories

About Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories

Long-form mystery audiobooks for late-night listening. Original Golden Age Murder Mystery-inspired cases, classic-style whodunits, with new detectives like Veronica Lakewood – all told in a cinematic, immersive way with careful historical detail. Settle in, press play, and let the night take over. Our contact info: https://www.lavertyprod.ie/nocturnal-tales contact@lavertyprod.ie

Publisher

Nicolas and Dora – Nocturnal Tales

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Dec 2025

Latest episode

24 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

290 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Oct 2026

   octor Thorndyke: The Mandarin’s Pearl & The Echo of a Mutiny by R. Austin Freeman | The Midnight Archive — A Dr Thorndyke Mystery

   📌 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 Another long evening with Doctor Thorndyke, the forensic detective — two cases, and two very different ways of telling a mystery. Doctor Thorndyke, the first great forensic detective, in two cases: a young man who believes he is haunted by a murdered mandarin, and one of Freeman's famous inverted stories — a lighthouse on the Girdler sands, two keepers, and a crime you watch happen before Thorndyke unpicks it. ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS A complete, unabridged reading of The Mandarin’s Pearl and The Echo of a Mutiny by R. Austin Freeman, from John Thorndyke's Cases (1909) and The Singing Bone (1912), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries. 🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXT The Archive is deep — Judith Lee? Max Carrados? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight. 💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS Tonight's second case shows you the crime first. Do you prefer watching Thorndyke catch a culprit you already know — or the classic puzzle? 🕵️ 🕒 CHAPTERS 00:00 - Introduction 01:58 - Part One - The Mandarin’s Pearl 45:59 - Part Two - The Mandarin’s Pearl 1:09:09 - Interlude 1:09:46 - Part One - The Echo of a Mutiny 1:45:31 - Part Two - The Echo of a Mutiny 2:30:41 - 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 R. Austin Freeman (public domain). 🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS Dr Thorndyke audiobook, R. Austin Freeman, forensic detective, John Thorndyke's Cases 1909, The Singing Bone 1912, inverted detective story, lighthouse mystery, haunted pearl, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery 🏷️ HASHTAGS #NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #DrThorndyke #AustinFreeman #ForensicDetective #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain

2. 

   23 Oct 2026

   The Adventure of the Mourning Visitor | An Original Sherlock Holmes Mystery Audiobook

   📌 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, November 1896. Fog over Baker Street, a fire in the grate, and a short paragraph in an evening paper that most readers passed over under the impression that it advertised a theatrical entertainment. Its heading was The Mourning Visitor. Samuel Creed, a retired porter in Bloomsbury, has died in the night. On the afternoon before, an elderly woman in black called at his lodgings, asked for a chair beside the fire, and told him she had come to wait for his funeral. A fortnight earlier, in Kensington, Mr Gideon Prowse died the same way, after the same visitor. Doctor Lionel Kendrick, a careful, retired physician whom Watson has met, has written three letters to the editor about the story. None has been printed. His latest is described as agitated. Sherlock Holmes is interested in what was actually witnessed and what the newspapers merely repeated. Then word comes that the woman in black has called on Doctor Kendrick himself. ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS 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. 💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS The woman in black announced each funeral before it happened. When did you decide what she really was? 🕵️ 🕒 CHAPTERS 00:00 - Introduction 01:50 - Chapter One - Two Funerals 13:25 - Chapter Two - The Physician’s House 27:11 - Chapter Three - The Woman at the Fire 38:48 - Chapter Four - The Boy in the Dock 51:51 - Chapter Five - A Visitor Under Observation 1:02:16 - Chapter Six - Mr Garside’s Instructions 1:14:41 - Chapter Seven - The Dispensary 1:27:41 - Chapter Eight - The Bookkeeper 1:42:22 - Chapter Nine - An Unwelcome Truth 1:53:26 - Chapter Ten - The Fourth Address 2:05:11 - Chapter Eleven - The Last Vigil 2:22:43 - Chapter Twelve - The Name Restored 2:39:38 - 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 Sherlock Holmes audiobook, original Sherlock Holmes mystery, Doctor Watson, Baker Street, Victorian London 1896, woman in mourning, omen of death mystery, Victorian poisoning, Inspector Lestrade, full-length mystery audiobook 🏷️ HASHTAGS #NocturnalTales #SherlockHolmes #BakerStreet #VictorianMystery #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #DetectiveFiction #Whodunnit

3. 

   22 Oct 2026

   Max Carrados: The Disappearance of Marie Severe & The Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery

   📌 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 Another long evening with the blind detective, Max Carrados — two of his most absorbing cases together. Max Carrados, the blind detective, in two cases: a schoolgirl from Swanstead on Thames who vanished two weeks ago without a trace, and a schoolboy dead after a supper of mushrooms, with an uncle who was the last to see him alive. ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS A complete, unabridged reading of The Disappearance of Marie Severe and The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms by Ernest Bramah, from The Eyes of Max Carrados (1923), now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive, alongside our original Nocturnal Tales mysteries. 🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXT The Archive is deep — Judith Lee? Max Carrados? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? Vote in the poll, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight. 💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS Carrados cannot see — and still noticed what everyone else missed. Which clue did you catch before he did? 🕵️ 🕒 CHAPTERS 00:00 - Introduction 01:56 - Part One - The Disappearance of Marie Severe 1:02:19 - Part Two - The Disappearance of Marie Severe 1:14:05 - Interlude 1:14:37 - Part One - The Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms 2:06:08 - Part Two - The Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms 2:27:44 - 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 Ernest Bramah (public domain). 🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS Max Carrados audiobook, Ernest Bramah, blind detective, The Eyes of Max Carrados 1923, missing schoolgirl mystery, poisoning mystery, Louis Carlyle, Inspector Beedel, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery 🏷️ HASHTAGS #NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #MaxCarrados #ErnestBramah #BlindDetective #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveFiction #PublicDomain

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