Episode Details

Chicago, 1930s. The notebook marked PART ONE has been opened — and Alice Mercer's small, careful handwriting tells a story the police never heard while she was alive. Moved dresses. Unlatched windows. Footsteps after midnight. A man who smelled of soap and smiled as if he knew her.

Now the killer has counted his targets. Six women. Initials tagged to stolen keepsakes — a hair ribbon, a powder compact, a broken comb, a cheap locket — left in a bundle on the hotel service stairs with a message: FIVE LEFT.

Veronica Lakewood and Captain Arthur Graves race to find the women on the list before the man who practised on locked rooms graduates from theatre to slaughter. With O'Rourke closing in, a terrified survivor reached by telephone before the line goes dead, and a final confrontation in the blue lamp-light of the club where it all began, Part II answers the question Alice Mercer wrote beneath her name: what do women do when men can come through walls?

🕵️ A noir mystery about women who were not listened to until it was too late — and the singer who intends to be the last door he opens.

✍️ Written by Nicolas & Dora Laverty for Nocturnal Tales. Original fiction. © All rights reserved — no reproduction or adaptation without permission.

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💬 Alice Mercer wrote everything down — the moved dress, the unlatched window, the man who smelled of soap. She was brave and organised, and she should not have had to be either. Which detail from her notebook disturbed you most?

🕒 Timestamps 00:00 – Introduction [UPDATE AFTER UPLOAD]

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