# Cynthia Wakeham's Money | A Veronica Lakewood & Captain Hastings Mystery Audiobook Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/cynthia-wakeham-s-money-a-veronica-lakewood-captain-hastings-mystery-audiobook Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/cynthia-wakeham-s-money-a-veronica-lakewood-captain-hastings-mystery-audiobook.md Podcast: [Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120) Published: 2026-06-05T19:00:01+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/12164784197/episodes/Cynthia-Wakehams-Money--A-Veronica-Lakewood--Captain-Hastings-Mystery-Audiobook-e3kcupg Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO3748460455.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/episodes/cynthia-wakeham-s-money-a-veronica-lakewood-captain-hastings-mystery-audiobook Duration seconds: 5175 ## Resource 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. Cynthia Wakeham has taken a house on Lake Shore Drive and surrounded herself with a nephew drowning in gambling debts, an English cousin who quotes Scripture, a private secretary, a spiritualist, a busted lord, and two society girls sniffing around the fortune, and now she has sent an engraved invitation to Veronica Lakewood and Captain Hastings reading "I dislike mysteries but I collect witnesses"; because Cynthia and Veronica share a Paris past built on money, silence, and a woman named Lucienne whom Veronica tried to save and Cynthia chose to forget; when a guest is murdered during the dinner party and a forged photograph surfaces that could destroy everything Veronica has built, what began as a rich woman's theatre becomes a locked-house mystery about old debts, new lies, and the dangerous question of what a fortune has actually bought; inspired by Anna Katharine Green's novel while remaining entirely original, Cynthia Wakeham's Money is an original Golden Age–style mystery about money, masks, and the discovery that the most expensive thing a fortune can purchase is the right to pretend nothing happened. ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is an original Golden Age–style mystery presented as a respectful homage to classic detective fiction, inspired by Anna Katharine Green's novel Cynthia Wakeham's Money. Veronica Lakewood is an original character. All characters and events in this story are fictional. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied. 💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTSCynthia's money bought silence, suspicion, fear, a false photograph, and a murder committed too late. Veronica stole from he… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/episodes/cynthia-wakeham-s-money-a-veronica-lakewood-captain-hastings-mystery-audiobook/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/cynthia-wakeham-s-money-a-veronica-lakewood-captain-hastings-mystery-audiobook.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.