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The Second Bullet by Anna Katharine Green | The Midnight Archive - Classic Detective Audiobook
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Content note: This 1915 mystery involves the death of a young child as part of its plot. It's presented unabridged and without graphic detail, but listeners who find that subject distressing may prefer to skip this one.
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On a sultry September night in a New York apartment house, a man is found shot dead behind a locked door, his infant son lying lifeless beneath his arm and a pistol still clutched in his hand; the coroner calls it suicide, the life-insurance company calls it an excuse not to pay, and the dead man's widow, ruined and disbelieved, swears it was murder - and she is right, but she cannot prove it, for only one shot was fired from her husband's pistol, yet the fatal bullet came from another gun entirely, and the second bullet that would settle everything has vanished from a room searched down to the floorboards; enter Violet Strange, the fashionable young debutante who solves in secret the crimes the police cannot, and who will sit alone in that darkened bedroom until she has thought the dead man's last thought and found the bullet in the most terrible place in the world; this is the great Anna Katharine Green, the American novelist often called the mother of the detective novel, whose work both Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie admired, and whose Violet Strange is an underestimated society girl whose greatest weapon is that no one believes she is dangerous, from The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange, presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Anna Katharine Green 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 Second Bullet by Anna Katharine Green, first published in 1915 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 Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Arsène Lupin? Martin Hewitt? Father Brown? 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
Every official looked at the same locked room and read the obvious answer; only Violet refused it. Is the finest detective the one clever enough to see the truth, or the one brave enough to follow it somewhere terrible? 🕵️
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Story by Anna Katharine Green (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.
🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
anna katharine green audiobook, violet strange audiobook, the second bullet audiobook, the golden slipper and other problems, locked room mystery
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On a sultry September night in a New York apartment house, a man is found shot dead behind a locked door, his infant son lying lifeless beneath his arm and a pistol still clutched in his hand; the coroner calls it suicide, the life-insurance company calls it an excuse not to pay, and the dead man's widow, ruined and disbelieved, swears it was murder - and she is right, but she cannot prove it, for only one shot was fired from her husband's pistol, yet the fatal bullet came from another gun entirely, and the second bullet that would settle everything has vanished from a room searched down to the floorboards; enter Violet Strange, the fashionable young debutante who solves in secret the crimes the police cannot, and who will sit alone in that darkened bedroom until she has thought the dead man's last thought and found the bullet in the most terrible place in the world; this is the great Anna Katharine Green, the American novelist often called the mother of the detective novel, whose work both Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie admired, and whose Violet Strange is an underestimated society girl whose greatest weapon is that no one believes she is dangerous, from The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange, presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Anna Katharine Green 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 Second Bullet by Anna Katharine Green, first published in 1915 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 Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Arsène Lupin? Martin Hewitt? Father Brown? 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
Every official looked at the same locked room and read the obvious answer; only Violet refused it. Is the finest detective the one clever enough to see the truth, or the one brave enough to follow it somewhere terrible? 🕵️
📖 GET THE EBOOK - $3.99
📌 Patreon - included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchase
https://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383
🛒 Gumroad - EPUB + PDF included
https://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2
❤️ Buy Me a Coffee - EPUB + PDF included
https://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales/e/532495
Both formats included - EPUB for Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books · PDF for tablets.
❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS
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📚 Children's Book - Sherlock Paws and the Diamond of the Nile
https://amzn.to/3MRzLNq
🧾 CREDITS
Story by Anna Katharine Green (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.
🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
anna katharine green audiobook, violet strange audiobook, the second bullet audiobook, the golden slipper and other problems, locked room mystery