# The Alvarado Necklace | A Veronica Lakewood Mystery Audiobook Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/the-alvarado-necklace-a-veronica-lakewood-mystery-audiobook Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/the-alvarado-necklace-a-veronica-lakewood-mystery-audiobook.md Podcast: [Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120) Published: 2026-06-24T19:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/12164784197/episodes/The-Alvarado-Necklace--A-Veronica-Lakewood-Mystery-Audiobook-e3l3551 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO6988444311.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/episodes/the-alvarado-necklace-a-veronica-lakewood-mystery-audiobook Duration seconds: 4631 ## Resource πŸ“Œ Patreon β€” ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month) https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales In a white house in Palermo behind iron gates and jacaranda trees, two thieves posing as a married French couple accept a dinner invitation from a wealthy Argentine widow who wears at her throat a necklace of diamonds and sapphires said to have belonged to a Russian grand duchess β€” they have come to steal it, but before the fish course is cleared the necklace vanishes from the hostess's throat without a hand being raised and a note appears on a silver tray, turning the evening from a planned robbery into a locked-room puzzle involving a bitter ex-lover from one thief's past, a lovesick colonel manipulated by charm, a desperate daughter already stealing from her own mother, and a midnight trail through the backstreets of Buenos Aires to a shuttered restaurant above a gaming house; The Alvarado Necklace is an original Golden Age–style mystery about thieves forced to become detectives by another thief's bad manners β€” and the unsettling discovery that solving a crime can be as dangerous a habit as committing one. ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS This is an original mystery featuring Veronica Lakewood, an original character created by Nocturnal Tales. All characters and events in this story are fictional. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied. πŸ’¬ QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS They went to the Alvarado house to steal. They left having solved a case. When a thief discovers that asking the right question in a room full of liars is more satisfying than taking the jewels β€” is that redemption, or just a more interesting crime? πŸ•΅οΈ πŸ“– GET THE EBOOK β€” $3.99 πŸ“Œ Patreon β€” included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchase https://www.patreon.com/posts… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/episodes/the-alvarado-necklace-a-veronica-lakewood-mystery-audiobook/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/the-alvarado-necklace-a-veronica-lakewood-mystery-audiobook.md` β€” 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.