{"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 Blue Cross by G. K. Chesterton | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook","slug":"the-blue-cross-by-g-k-chesterton-the-midnight-archive-classic-detective-audiobook","published_at":"2026-07-07T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories-7848120/the-blue-cross-by-g-k-chesterton-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-Blue-Cross-by-G--K--Chesterton--The-Midnight-Archive--Classic-Detective-Audiobook-e3lnpai","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO9542254574.mp3","summary":"📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month) https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales Valentin, the most celebrated detective in Europe, has crossed to England on the trail of Flambeau — the giant, brilliant, and seemingly unstoppable master thief the whole continent is hunting; but the clue that leads him across London is the strangest a policeman ever followed: a trail of tiny, delicious absurdities — salt poured into a sugar bowl, soup flung at a wall, the price labels swapped on a greengrocer's apples and nuts, a smashed café window — laid, it seems, on purpose, and only at the end, on a lonely bench on Hampstead Heath beneath the first stars, does Valentin understand that a short, dumpy, blinking little priest from Essex who looks as harmless as a boiled pudding has been three steps ahead of everyone all along; this is \"The Blue Cross,\" the very first Father Brown story, the case that introduced the unlikeliest and most beloved detective in all of crime fiction, presented complete and unabridged exactly as G. K. Chesterton 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 Blue Cross by G. K. Chesterton, 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 Father Brown? Sherlock Holmes? 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 Father Brown catches the cleverest thie…","meta_description":"📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month) https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales Valentin, the most celebrated detective i…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3162,"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-blue-cross-by-g-k-chesterton-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-blue-cross-by-g-k-chesterton-the-midnight-archive-classic-detective-audiobook.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}