{"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 Black Bag Left on a Door-Step by Catherine Louisa Pirkis | Loveday Brooke Audiobook","slug":"the-black-bag-left-on-a-door-step-by-catherine-louisa-pirkis-loveday-brooke-audiobook","published_at":"2026-07-23T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/the-black-bag-left-on-a-door-step-by-catherine-louisa-pirkis-loveday-brooke-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-Black-Bag-Left-on-a-Door-Step-by-Catherine-Louisa-Pirkis--Loveday-Brooke-Audiobook-e3mdibq","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO3889345921.mp3","summary":"📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month) https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales On Christmas Eve, £30,000 worth of jewellery vanishes from Craigen Court. A window was unfastened from inside, the safe was left unlocked, and the thief chalked a mocking message across its empty door: TO BE LET, UNFURNISHED. Suspicion settles upon Stephanie Delcroix, the frightened French maid who held the key. Scotland Yard searches for her lovers, certain the case is simple. Then Loveday Brooke notices a second story in the morning paper. Sixty miles away, a black leather bag has appeared on an elderly spinster's doorstep. It contains a clergyman's belongings and a melodramatic farewell note from a ruined priest whose body cannot be found. The police dismiss it as a tasteless hoax. Everyone else sees a jewel robbery and a practical joke. Loveday sees the same theatrical hand behind both. Undercover below stairs, she follows a book of comic recitations and a vanished amateur actor instead of the obvious suspect. First published in 1893, this complete and unabridged story introduced Loveday Brooke. ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, first published in 1893 and now in the public domain. Every word of the story 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 Loveday Brooke? Lady Molly? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Arsène Lupin? Father Brown? Martin Hewitt? 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 Would you have connected an enorm…","meta_description":"📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month) https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales On Christmas Eve, £30,000 worth of jewell…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3725,"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-black-bag-left-on-a-door-step-by-catherine-louisa-pirkis-loveday-brooke-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-black-bag-left-on-a-door-step-by-catherine-louisa-pirkis-loveday-brooke-audiobook.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}