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The Lady Who Was Mislaid | The Belgian Detective Mystery Audiobook
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- Jul 3, 2026
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Summary
London, a wet March morning: Sir Malcolm Strathcarron arrives at the Belgian Detective's door not grief-stricken but merely annoyed — his wife, he complains, has "removed herself from his house without permission." But the more the detective and his loyal companion look, the less it resembles a runaway wife and the more it resembles something colder: no boots, no maid, no luggage, and yet a journey "by arrangement" to somewhere far away. Following a bad-tempered Pekingese named Julius Caesar, a hollowed-out hiding place holding a silver whistle and a ferry ticket from Oban to Mull, a sharp-tongued hostess, a discreet secretary, and three words scrawled on a scrap of paper — "Ask the widow" — the trail leads north to the Scottish islands and a chilling phrase overheard in the house: "the island will cure her tongue." The Lady Who Was Mislaid is an original Golden Age-style mystery about marriage, power, and the old and terrible art of making an inconvenient woman disappear. ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS This is an original Golden Age-style mystery presented as a respectful homage to classic detective fiction, inspired by the real 1732 abduction of Lady Grange (Rachel Chiesley), who was seized in Edinburgh and hidden for years in the remote Scottish islands. Names, motives, and events here are altered and fictionalised. All characters are fictional. No affiliation, endorsement, or official connection is implied. 💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS The real Lady Grange never got her neat ending; our lady gets a detective. When a husband can call his wife "unwell" and make her vanish to an island, what is the true crime — the abduction, or a world that lets him call it a private family matter? 🕵️ 📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99 📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time…