Episode Details

Hertfordshire, 1898: a fifteen-year-old boy dies in sudden agony after luncheon, and the evidence points to an industrial poison linked to his grandfather’s chemical works—until the Victorian Detective notices the household’s smallest routine detail: a daily pressed lemon, a kitchen ice-chest that should have been empty, and fruit injected by syringe; as grief hardens into suspicion inside Maybury House, the inquiry turns from public scandal to private tyranny, where loyalty, dependence, and long-trained silence prove more corrosive than any compound, and a murder meant for one man strikes another instead; inspired by historical crime of its era while remaining entirely fictional, The Pressed Lemon is an original classic-detective mystery about accidental victims, domestic power, and the fatal cost of “ordinary” cruelty.

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When a death is “meant” for someone else, who carries the real guilt: the hand that acted, the mind that influenced, or the household that created the motive?

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Written by Nocturnal Tales. Narrated by Nocturnal Tales.

🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS

victorian detective audiobook, 1898 england mystery, poisoned lemon case, country house poisoning, chemical works scandal, syringe injected fruit, accidental victim mystery, domestic tyranny crime, servant loyalty motive, classic deduction story, inspector investigation, british countryside whodunit, family power and fear, single victim poison plot, gothic domestic suspense