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It begins with something the newspapers swore was impossible: a man who simply vanishes. On a foggy February afternoon, Mr. Leonard Marvell walks out into the London streets and is never seen again — no body, no ransom, no trace — and his devoted sister goes to Scotland Yard in a state of terror; the last person known to have been near him was a tall figure in an Inverness cape, glimpsed through the murk, and the more the Yard's men pull at the threads the more the whole affair tightens into a knot they cannot loosen. So they do what they have grudgingly learned to do — they hand it to Lady Molly, the brilliant, elegant head of the Female Department, who sees the shape of the truth long before the men around her will admit it is there. From Baroness Orczy, the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, comes another jewel of Edwardian detection and one of the very first great female detectives in fiction, presented complete and unabridged, exactly as she wrote it, from the Midnight Archive, Nocturnal Tales' library of the classic detective stories that built the genre.
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This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Man in the Inverness Cape by Baroness Orczy, first published in 1910 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.
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A man vanishes with no body and no trace, and a tall figure in a cape is the only clue. Do you think a person can truly disappear — or is "impossible" just a puzzle no one has looked at correctly yet? 🕵️
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Story by Baroness Orczy (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.
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