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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
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- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late by Maurice Leblanc | The Midnight Archive - Classic Detective Audiobook
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- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Alvarado Necklace | A Veronica Lakewood Mystery Audiobook
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- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Secret Garden by G. K. Chesterton | The Midnight Archive - Classic Detective Audiobook
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The Clairvoyant's Hour | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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The Star in the Castle | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
Dublin, November 1925: a frightened letter summons the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion across the Irish Sea to Dublin Castle, where a former official…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Real Shadow at Bertram's | The Village Sleuth Mystery Audiobook
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook
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The Last Pre-Raphaelites | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
London, 1930: a great retrospective is about to open at the Tate celebrating the forgotten women of English art — painters, enamellists, and craftswomen who…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Stanway Cameo Mystery by Arthur Morrison | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook
The finest cameo in the world — a sardonyx of three colours carved in the first century and the size of a man's hand — is bought for five thousand pounds and…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
Madame Valenne | A Veronica Lakewood Mystery Audiobook
Paris, before Hastings, before Chicago, before any of it: a woman arrives at the Gare du Nord with one suitcase, three false names, and several thousand…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Grotto Spectre by Anna Katharine Green | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook
For the first time in her life Violet Strange takes a case not for money but for a face — across a crowded musicale she sees a young man marked by a sorrow so…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Dinner Party Murder — Part 2 | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
The storm has not lifted, the guests have not moved, and the Belgian Detective is ready to explain precisely how a dinner became a death; in Part One a wealthy…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Dinner Party Murder — Part 1 | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
London, March 1937: an engraved card summons the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion to Harrow Hall in Mayfair — the marble palace of a wealthy collector…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Seven of Hearts by Maurice Leblanc | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook
A warning note slipped into a locked apartment, a metal playing card — the seven of hearts — pierced with seven small holes, and a stranger who breaks in to…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Sandhills Bride | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
Pinehurst, North Carolina: pine trees, sand roads, golf courses, and a polished American resort where money attempts not to look vulgar — and where a young…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Golden Slipper by Anna Katharine Green | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook
By night Violet Strange glitters through New York's most exclusive ballrooms — a petite, fashionable debutante no one would ever take seriously, which is…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Shot at Godshill | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
Isle of Wight, 1940: the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion answer a desperate letter from a frightened woman at a quiet farm near Godshill, where a…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook
A pawnbroker with flaming red hair answers a newspaper advertisement and finds himself hired by the mysterious Red-Headed League, paid four pounds a week to…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Black Road of Ghent | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
Ghent, 1919: the war is over but the killing has not stopped — in the countryside around Ghent and Bruges farms are raided, homes broken into, and people shot…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
Veronica Lakewood and the Casino Estrella | A Veronica Lakewood & Captain Hastings Mystery Audiobook
Havana in the 1930s: a white Art Deco casino blazing with light, American millionaires in cream dinner jackets, Cuban officials with diamond pins, and upstairs…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman — when a masked stranger calls at 221B Baker Street after dark claiming to be the agent of a European royal house…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
Announcement: The Midnight Archive Opens
Welcome to Nocturnal Tales. Tonight, no murder. No body in the library. Just news — and we think you're going to like it.Starting this week, Nocturnal Tales is…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
Cynthia Wakeham's Money | A Veronica Lakewood & Captain Hastings Mystery Audiobook
Chicago in the 1930s: a wealthy English widow walks into police headquarters and asks what it would cost to report a murder before it happened — her own; Mrs…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Well at Nassau | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
Nassau glitters like paradise but paradise has always contained a serpent — seven years ago a copper king was murdered in his bedroom at a great white villa…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Undertaker's Holiday | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
A broken-down coach, a crooked country inn, and a dead man upstairs clutching a card that reads ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD — when a motor coach crash strands…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Respectable Collectors | The Village Sleuth Mystery Audiobook
In quiet St. Mary Mead a flawlessly polite new family settles into village life just as a major London bullion raid shocks the country — the Donovans attend…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Newlywed's Shadow | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
London, 1936: a young woman stands in the dock at the Old Bailey accused of poisoning her husband with arsenic — Lady Beatrice Langston, clever, composed, and…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
Pip and the Bell at Whitehaven | A Captain Hastings & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook
The Belgian Detective is in Brussels, the flat is quiet, and Captain Hastings has just made the mistake of thinking life is ordinary — Anne Foster arrives at…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Sleeping Beauty | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
Switzerland, 1930s: the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion arrive at the Grand Hôtel Aurora above Lake Geneva for a restful holiday that lasts…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Door That Tapped at One | The Village Sleuth Mystery Audiobook
Briarwood looks like an ordinary country house — added to in stages, slightly awkward, full of character — but the house doesn't add up: a corridor is too…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Corpse at the Costume Ball | A Captain Hastings & Anne Foster Mystery Audiobook
A musketeer, a spaniel, and a murder at the most fashionable charity ball of the season — Captain Hastings is invited to Lady Beatrice Mallory's annual costume…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Voice in the Wall | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
North London: the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion answer a desperate letter from a widow at 19 Marlowe Terrace, a drab narrow house where something…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Violet Heiress | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
New York, 1920s: a shipping magnate's daughter is seized from her Fifth Avenue mansion by masked men claiming to be political radicals, a printed manifesto…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Holly Wreath Murder | The Village Sleuth Christmas Mystery Audiobook (Sunday Special)
Christmas Eve at Rutherford Hall should have meant candlelight, wreaths, and goodwill — instead it brings anonymous threats, a sudden death, and a pair of…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Blue Drawing-Room | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
Tehran, 1934: a world-famous American heiress is found strangled in an elegant blue drawing-room after a private quarrel with the heir to the throne, and the…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Shadow in Lost Man's Lane | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
Sussex, 1929: a practical woman writes to the Belgian Detective not because she believes in ghosts but because something in Lost Man's Lane is behaving as…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
Footsteps Behind the Door | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
In 1932, a crested letter draws the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion to La Ventana, a vast Uruguayan estancia where a respected household is…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Adventure of the Red Chessman | A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Audiobook
London, 1891: a young woman arrives at Baker Street carrying a chess piece her father tried to burn — a red pawn carved from Indian ivory and stained the…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
Sherlock Holmes and the Bells of Dunmere Abbey | Locked Room Mystery Audiobook
Yorkshire coast, November: a baronet is found dead in his locked study with salt water pooled near the hearth, seaweed pressed beneath the bolted door, and no…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Empty Cradle | The Village Sleuth Mystery Audiobook
A missing baby, a ladder at the nursery window, a ransom note demanding ten thousand pounds, and one very sharp old lady who sees what everyone else overlooks…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
Veronica Lakewood — The Lipstick Room, Part II | 1930s Chicago Noir Mystery Audiobook
Chicago, 1930s. The notebook marked PART ONE has been opened — and Alice Mercer's small, careful handwriting tells a story the police never heard while she was…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Choir of Whispers | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook (The Archive)
Rome: the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion arrive for a restful fortnight only to be drawn into scandal when anonymous letters begin circulating…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Christmas Eve Silence | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook (The Archive)
Christmas Eve in London: a small tobacconist on Valette Street stays open late with the lights on and the till counted, routine unchanged — until two quiet…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Woman in Black | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
Italy, 1929: a countess writes to the Belgian Detective in secret — because if her husband knew, the detective would never be admitted to the house again — and…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Night the Music Stopped | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
In early wartime London, a poised woman arrives with a compact mirror hiding a coded warning — "the music will stop once" — and the Belgian Detective and his…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Adventure of the Briarbank Papers | A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Audiobook
London and Wimbledon, spring 1902: when brilliant electrical engineer Laurence Brooke is found stabbed through the chest with a Moorish paper-knife in the…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Letter from the Dead | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
England, early 1930s: when a precise, chilling letter reaches the Belgian Detective seven days after its sender's death, he and his loyal companion travel to…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The House That Refused the Dead | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook (The Archive)
A country house in a damp English hollow: a man is declared dead in a locked sitting-room at two minutes past four and when the door is unlocked an hour later…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Woman of Bucks Road | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
Isle of Man, 1914: a solitary widow is found murdered in her modest house at No. 40 Bucks Road, Douglas, and the town rushes to the easiest story — robbery —…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Lipstick Room | A Veronica Lakewood Mystery Audiobook — Part One
Chicago, 1930s: when nightclub singer Veronica Lakewood returns to her hotel after midnight to find Detective O'Rourke waiting with the news that a young…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Vatican Disappearance | A Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
Rome, June 1930s: when fifteen-year-old Caterina Bernardi — dutiful, devout, and entirely without enemies — vanishes after her flute lesson near…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Pressed Lemon | A Sherlock Holmes Case Audiobook
Hertfordshire, 1898: a fifteen-year-old boy dies in sudden agony after luncheon, and the evidence points to an industrial poison linked to his grandfather’s…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Oxford Mystery | A Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook (The Archive)
Oxford, New Year's Eve, 1920s: when a priceless Cézanne vanishes from the Ashmolean Museum during a glittering gala — the frame left empty on the wall, the…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Wallace Collection Conspiracy | A Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook (The Archive)
London, 1930s: when a priceless Venetian mirror vanishes during a glittering gala at the Wallace Collection — the lights having failed at precisely the right…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Bridegroom Who Mislaid Himself | A Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
London, spring 1930s: when Captain Hastings attends the stag dinner of Charles Chudley — charming, debt-prone, and hours away from marrying Cynthia Vale — and…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Shadow of Whitechapel | A Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook (The Archive)
London, 1930s: when workmen demolishing an old house in Whitechapel tear from the brickwork a buried knife, a shattered mirror, and a dress stiff with decades…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Lady of Many Names | A Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook (The Archive)
London, 1920s: when a dazzling confidence artist begins leaving a trail of ruined men across the city — a jeweller dismissed as a lunatic after reporting…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Portrait at Blackthorn House | A Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
Surrey, England, 1934: when celebrated portrait painter Lucien Vidal is found dead in the locked studio of Blackthorn House — his latest canvas still on the…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The House of False Doors | The Veronica Lakewood Chronicles
Chicago in the late Jazz Age: a wealthy widow on Prairie Avenue fears she is being watched inside her own immaculate home, and a “respectable” adviser appears…
- Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories
The Vanishing Heiress | A Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook (The Archive)
London, 1930s: when young American heiress Dorothea Willoughby vanishes without trace between Bond Street and Grosvenor Street — her book and chocolates found…