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Nocturnal TalesMystery audiobooks for quiet evenings

Loveday Brooke

A professional woman detective working for a London agency in the 1890s, plainly dressed and easily overlooked, which is exactly how she gets in.

4 stories · every one free to listen to

Cover illustration for The Ghost of Fountain Lane

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

Cover illustration for Drawn Daggers

Drawn Daggers

Loveday Brooke

Two things have happened to the Hawke household, and Loveday Brooke's chief is convinced that only one of them is worth anybody's time. A young lady has lost a valuable necklace and wishes the matter hushed up.

by C. L. Pirkis

55 minNo. 236

Cover illustration for Missing! & A Princess's Vengeance

A double bill tonight, and our longest case of the fortnight: two complete mysteries for Miss Loveday Brooke, the quiet, plainly dressed professional of the Lynch Court agency. MISSING!

by C. L. Pirkis

1 hr 59 minNo. 218

Cover illustration for The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step

On Christmas Eve, £30,000 worth of jewellery vanishes from Craigen Court. Someone inside the great house unfastened a stained-glass window, Lady Cathrow's safe was left unlocked, and the thief departed after chalking a mocking message across its empty door: TO BE LET, UNFURNISHED.

by Catherine Louisa Pirkis

1 hr 2 minNo. 200