{"podcast":{"title":"Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories","slug":"nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120","podcast_index_feed_id":7848120,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10caa1704/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.lavertyprod.ie/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44974409/44974409-1765374843006-461a1b5dc3713.jpg","author":"Nicolas and Dora – Nocturnal Tales","episode_count":199,"summary":"Long-form mystery audiobooks for late-night listening. Original Golden Age Murder Mystery-inspired cases, classic-style whodunits, with new detectives like Veronica Lakewood – all told in a cinematic, immersive way with careful historical detail. Settle in, press play, and let the night take over. Our contact info: https://www.lavertyprod.ie/nocturnal-tales contact@lavertyprod.ie","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T18:19:22.474847+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120"},"episode":{"title":"The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook","slug":"the-adventure-of-the-speckled-band-by-arthur-conan-doyle-the-midnight-archive-classic-detective-audiobook","published_at":"2026-06-20T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/the-adventure-of-the-speckled-band-by-arthur-conan-doyle-the-midnight-archive-classic-detective-audiobook","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/12164784197/episodes/The-Adventure-of-the-Speckled-Band-by-Arthur-Conan-Doyle--The-Midnight-Archive--Classic-Detective-Audiobook-e3l0tsk","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO5170910788.mp3","summary":"📌 Listen ad-free, early, and uninterrupted on Patreon → https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales "It was the band! The speckled band!" — the last words of a dying woman that no one understood, until a terrified young woman arrives at 221B Baker Street before dawn to tell Sherlock Holmes that her twin sister died two years ago in a locked bedroom screaming those very words, and now she has been moved into that same room while her violent stepfather, the brooding Dr. Grimesby Roylott, keeps a cheetah, a baboon, and a band of gypsies on his crumbling estate at Stoke Moran; a bedroom that cannot be entered, a bell-rope that rings nothing, a ventilator that leads nowhere, and a sister already in her grave — Holmes calls it one of the most dangerous cases of his career and Conan Doyle named it his own favourite Holmes story, a perfect locked-room mystery first printed in The Strand Magazine in February 1892 and collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 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 LISTENERSThis is a complete, unabridged reading of The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1892 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 NEXTThe Archive is deep — more Holmes? Martin Hewitt? Violet Strange? Arsène Lupin? Father Brown? 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 COMMENTSHolmes breaks into a man's home, tampers with his property,…","meta_description":"📌 Listen ad-free, early, and uninterrupted on Patreon → https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales \"It was the band! The speckled band!\" — the last…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3743,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/episodes/the-adventure-of-the-speckled-band-by-arthur-conan-doyle-the-midnight-archive-classic-detective-audiobook/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/the-adventure-of-the-speckled-band-by-arthur-conan-doyle-the-midnight-archive-classic-detective-audiobook.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}