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Nocturnal TalesMystery audiobooks for quiet evenings

Father Brown

A small, unremarkable Catholic priest who understands wickedness because he has spent his life listening to it in confession. He reasons from human nature rather than footprints.

3 stories · every one free to listen to

Cover illustration for The Queer Feet

The Queer Feet

Father Brown

At the Vernon Hotel, twelve gentlemen sit down to the annual dinner of an absurdly exclusive club called The Twelve True Fishermen — twelve members, twelve seats, and a set of silver fish knives and forks so precious the club is half-defined by them.

by G. K. Chesterton

53 minNo. 224

Cover illustration for The Blue Cross

The Blue Cross

Father Brown

Valentin, the most celebrated detective in Europe, has crossed to England on the trail of Flambeau — the giant, brilliant, and seemingly unstoppable master thief the whole continent is hunting.

by G. K. Chesterton

53 minNo. 211

Cover illustration for The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

Father Brown

Aristide Valentin, the most celebrated detective in Europe, throws a dinner party at his Paris mansion — a house whose garden is sealed on every side by a high, spiked, unscalable wall, with a single guarded exit.

by G. K. Chesterton

53 minNo. 200