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The Second Bullet by Anna Katharine Green | The Midnight Archive - Classic Detective Audiobook
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- Jun 27, 2026
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Content note: This 1915 mystery involves the death of a young child as part of its plot. It's presented unabridged and without graphic detail, but listeners who find that subject distressing may prefer to skip this one. 📌 Patreon - ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month) https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales On a sultry September night in a New York apartment house, a man is found shot dead behind a locked door, his infant son lying lifeless beneath his arm and a pistol still clutched in his hand; the coroner calls it suicide, the life-insurance company calls it an excuse not to pay, and the dead man's widow, ruined and disbelieved, swears it was murder - and she is right, but she cannot prove it, for only one shot was fired from her husband's pistol, yet the fatal bullet came from another gun entirely, and the second bullet that would settle everything has vanished from a room searched down to the floorboards; enter Violet Strange, the fashionable young debutante who solves in secret the crimes the police cannot, and who will sit alone in that darkened bedroom until she has thought the dead man's last thought and found the bullet in the most terrible place in the world; this is the great Anna Katharine Green, the American novelist often called the mother of the detective novel, whose work both Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie admired, and whose Violet Strange is an underestimated society girl whose greatest weapon is that no one believes she is dangerous, from The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange, presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Anna Katharine Green 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…