# The Coin of Dionysius by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook

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Podcast: [Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120)
Published: 2026-07-25T19:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/12164784197/episodes/The-Coin-of-Dionysius-by-Ernest-Bramah--The-Midnight-Archive--Classic-Detective-Audiobook-e3mghvo
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Duration seconds: 2492

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📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month) https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales Tonight the Archive opens on a detective unlike any other: a man who solves his cases entirely without sight. On a wet night, a struggling inquiry agent named Louis Carlyle needs one thing before morning — an ancient Greek silver coin authenticated, a genuine coin of Dionysius, because an arrest depends on whether it is real or a forgery; he takes it to the finest numismatist he can find, and discovers that the expert is an old friend he has not seen in twenty years, a man who has since gone completely blind: Max Carrados. And the blind man takes the small silver coin between his fingers and reads from it a crime that no one with eyes had seen. This is "The Coin of Dionysius," the very first Max Carrados story — George Orwell counted the Carrados tales among the only detective stories since Poe worth re-reading, and this is where it all begins — presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Ernest Bramah wrote it, from the Midnight Archive, Nocturnal Tales' library of the classic detective stories that built the genre. ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Coin of Dionysius by Ernest Bramah, first published in 1914 and now in the public domain. Every word is the author's own. Part of The Midnight Archive: three nights of classics every week, alongside four original Nocturnal Tales mysteries. 🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXT The Archive is deep — more Max Carrados? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Arsène Lupin? Violet Strange? Vote in the poll attached to this episode, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight. 💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS A blind detective reads a forgery by touch alone — noticing what…

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