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Welcome to Nocturnal Tales. Tonight, no murder. No body in the library. Just news — and we think you're going to like it.

Starting this week, Nocturnal Tales is opening The Midnight Archive: a new series of classic detective stories, presented exactly as their authors wrote them, word for word. The stories that built the genre — the gas lamps, the locked rooms, the impossible alibis — read the way they deserve to be read.

Here's what your week will look like from now on. Four brand-new original mysteries, written by us, just as always. And now, three nights from the Midnight Archive on top of that. Seven stories. Seven nights. Every single week.

The Archive opens where it had to open: at 221B Baker Street, with "A Scandal in Bohemia" — the very first Sherlock Holmes short story ever published, and the case where the great detective meets the only person who ever beat him.

But here's the part where you come in. The Archive is deep, and we want you to choose what we pull from its shelves next. More Holmes? Father Brown? Arsène Lupin? Or Anna Katharine Green — the woman who was writing detective stories before Doyle, and who taught Christie herself how it's done? There's a poll attached to this episode — vote, or tell us in the comments which classic you want to hear by lamplight.

The first case from the Midnight Archive drops this week. Keep your lamps low, and your wits about you.

Until then — the Archive is open.