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The Theft Committed by Good Manners | A Belgian Detective Mystery
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Stockholm is a city where winter enforces discipline—and manners enforce silence. During an elegant dinner at a prominent townhouse, a solid-gold statue vanishes from its pedestal while every guest remains seated at the table, and a snowstorm seals the house like a lid on a secret. Suspicion falls naturally on a former thief invited as a fashionable curiosity, but the Belgian Detective recognizes something more unsettling: a crime enabled not by greed, but by cooperation. As etiquette smooths every movement and politeness supplies perfect cover, the investigation reveals how collective innocence can be engineered without anyone ever appearing to act. The Theft Committed by Good Manners is an original Golden Age–style locked-room mystery with a comic edge, where civility becomes method and nothing is stolen by force, presented as a full-length audiobook by Nocturnal Tales.
This is an original mystery inspired by the traditions of classic detective fiction.
All characters and events are fictional. No affiliation or endorsement is implied.
What is more suspicious—a brilliant thief, or a room full of helpful people who swear they never touched a thing?
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