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The Woman in the Big Hat by Baroness Orczy | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook
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- Jul 14, 2026
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📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month) https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales On a busy afternoon in Regent Street, in a crowded Viennese tea-room loud with chattering women and clinking china, a young gentleman named Mark Culledon is poisoned in his cup of chocolate; the woman who sat with him rises from the table, says quite calmly that she will be back in half an hour, and walks out into the London evening — and though a dozen people watch her go, not one of them can describe her face. They remember only the hat: an enormous, fashionable hat, carrying its secret under the brim. Scotland Yard's finest men are baffled, and so they do what they have learned, grudgingly, to do — they send for Lady Molly. This is the most celebrated of all Lady Molly's cases, a jewel of Edwardian detection from one of the very first great female detectives in fiction, a woman who sees precisely what the men around her cannot; presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Baroness Orczy 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 Woman in the Big Hat by Baroness Orczy, first published in 1910 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 Lady Molly? 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 lamplight. 💬 QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS A dozen people watched the woman in the big hat walk out, and not one coul…