Characters and collections
Follow a detective from case to case, or settle into a collection for the evening.
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.69 stories- Sherlock HolmesBaker Street between 1891 and 1902. Black-edged notes before breakfast, locked studies on the Yorkshire coast, and the science of deduction.8 stories
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.8 stories- 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.10 stories
- 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.13 stories
- Original StoriesWritten for Nocturnal Tales and heard nowhere else. New cases, new detectives, the same golden-age rules.104 stories
- 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.24 stories