# The Musgrave Ritual by Arthur Conan Doyle | 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: 2026-07-11T20:38:52+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/12164784197/episodes/The-Musgrave-Ritual-by-Arthur-Conan-Doyle--The-Midnight-Archive--Classic-Detective-Audiobook-e3lv30t
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Duration seconds: 3003

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📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month) https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales For three hundred years an old English family has recited the same strange riddle, word for word, father to son — "Whose was it?" "His who is gone." "Who shall have it?" "He who will come." — a meaningless family curiosity, or so everyone believes; then Reginald Musgrave, an old college acquaintance, brings a young Sherlock Holmes a double mystery from Hurlstone, one of the oldest manor houses in Sussex: his butler Brunton, brilliant, restless and far too clever for his station, was caught at midnight poring over the family's Ritual and has since vanished without a trace, and days afterwards the maid he jilted disappears too, while a bag of dull, discoloured metal is dragged from the lake; to find the answer Holmes must pace out the shadow of an elm that no longer stands and lift a flagstone in a forgotten cellar. This is one of the very few cases Holmes tells in his own voice, drawn from the tin box of his earliest work, before Watson ever knew him — presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Arthur Conan Doyle 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 Musgrave Ritual by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1893 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 Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Arsène Lupin? Martin Hewitt? Violet Strange? Vote in the poll attached to this episode, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by…

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