Tonight in the library
The Two Confessions
Hercule Poirot
New Orleans, the spring of nineteen thirty-three. There are certain cities which, even before one has committed a crime in them, seem already to know the secret. Arthur and the Belgian Detective have come for a rest.
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Max Carrados
It begins with Max Carrados greeting his friend Carlyle at the door and remarking that he has a mystery about him somewhere. He can hear it in the man's step. The mystery is a railway disaster.
by Ernest Bramah
1 hr 7 minNo. 247
A. J. Raffles
Two cases tonight from the gentleman thief who has drawn more requests than anybody else in the Archive. WILFUL MURDER is the darkest thing in the whole collection. Bunny warns us at the outset that most of their robberies will not bear telling at length.
by E. W. Hornung
1 hr 13 minNo. 246
Hercule Poirot
Mexico City, the summer of nineteen twenty-eight. A banquet is given for the man who is about to become President — a soldier who won a civil war, lost an arm doing it, and has spent the years since collecting enemies with the same efficiency he once collected territory.
1 hr 20 minNo. 245
Loveday Brooke
Somebody has got hold of Miss Loveday Brooke's private address, which she had given strict orders was to be handed to nobody at all. Her holiday lasts precisely as long as it takes to read the note.
by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
55 minNo. 244
Hercule Poirot
A REIMAGINED EDITION — this case first appeared in the second volume of our collected mysteries. We have gone back through it, corrected it, and recorded it properly, so it can be heard as it was always meant to be heard.
2 hr 2 minNo. 243
Dr Thorndyke
A bell rings in the small hours, and Dr Jervis finds himself doing the one thing he thought he had left behind when he gave up medicine for the law: answering an urgent summons in the dark.
by R. Austin Freeman
1 hr 5 minNo. 242
Veronica Lakewood
Los Angeles after midnight. The white buildings turn grey, the palm trees turn black, and the city finally stops pretending. Veronica Lakewood likes it better that way. At least now it is being honest, she says.
54 minNo. 241
Max Carrados
Mr Carlyle arrives at The Turrets in the very best possible spirits: white spats, a gardenia in the buttonhole, and the bustling importance of a man who is certain he has brought his friend a straightforward piece of business.
by Ernest Bramah
1 hr 4 minNo. 240
Hercule PoirotThe Belgian detective at work across the world between the wars: Carnival in São Paulo, a night train from Madrid, a courtroom in Athens. Order, method, and the little grey cells.
Sherlock HolmesBaker Street between 1891 and 1902. Black-edged notes before breakfast, locked studies on the Yorkshire coast, and the science of deduction.
Miss MarpleSt Mary Mead and villages like it — flower shows, church fêtes and very long memories. An elderly lady who has seen this exact wickedness before.
Captain Hastings & Anne FosterDublin between the wars, where Captain Arthur and Anne Foster run a young detective agency with a spaniel named Pip underfoot. Occasionally as far afield as Chicago and Havana.
Veronica LakewoodA nightclub singer who arrived from Paris with false names and no past, and keeps finding bodies in Jazz Age Chicago — often with Captain Hastings beside her.
The Midnight ArchiveOur adaptations of the great out-of-copyright detectives — Raffles the gentleman thief, the blind Max Carrados, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, Arsène Lupin and Father Brown. Every author credited.No paywall. If Nocturnal Tales is part of your evening, you can help us make the next one.
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