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A Castle in Brittany & The Bag of Sand by Baroness Orczy | The Midnight Archive — Two Lady Molly Mysteries
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A double bill tonight: two complete cases for Lady Molly, the brilliant head of the Female Department of Scotland Yard.
🏰 A CASTLE IN BRITTANY
Lady Molly and her companion Mary have gone abroad on a well-earned holiday — to Porhoët, an enchanting village hidden in a Breton valley, with a convent, a quaint church and a kindly Curé. This, Mary insists, is emphatically not a professional case. But a holiday is no protection against a scoundrel: there is a promise given, a secret Mary is not to be told, and in an old castle on the Breton coast Mary is about to live through the most exciting ten minutes of her life.
🧳 THE BAG OF SAND
Back in London, Lady Molly takes an entirely different route to the truth — she becomes someone else. A disguise, a performance and a patient trap, because the surest way to catch a man who will never confess is to give him a reason to give himself away.
What both cases share is the thing that makes Lady Molly worth returning to: she does not out-muscle her opponents or out-run them. She reads them. Presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Baroness Orczy wrote them, from the Midnight Archive, Nocturnal Tales' library of the classic detective stories that built the genre.
ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
These are complete, unabridged readings of A Castle in Brittany and The Bag of Sand by Baroness Orczy, collected in Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (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.
🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXT
The Archive is deep — more Lady Molly? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Arsène Lupin? Raffles? Max Carrados? Violet Strange? 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
Two cases, two completely different methods: in one she trusts her instincts on holiday, in the other she disappears into a disguise. Which of tonight's two did you prefer? 🕵️
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🧾 CREDITS
Stories by Baroness Orczy (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.
🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
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https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales
A double bill tonight: two complete cases for Lady Molly, the brilliant head of the Female Department of Scotland Yard.
🏰 A CASTLE IN BRITTANY
Lady Molly and her companion Mary have gone abroad on a well-earned holiday — to Porhoët, an enchanting village hidden in a Breton valley, with a convent, a quaint church and a kindly Curé. This, Mary insists, is emphatically not a professional case. But a holiday is no protection against a scoundrel: there is a promise given, a secret Mary is not to be told, and in an old castle on the Breton coast Mary is about to live through the most exciting ten minutes of her life.
🧳 THE BAG OF SAND
Back in London, Lady Molly takes an entirely different route to the truth — she becomes someone else. A disguise, a performance and a patient trap, because the surest way to catch a man who will never confess is to give him a reason to give himself away.
What both cases share is the thing that makes Lady Molly worth returning to: she does not out-muscle her opponents or out-run them. She reads them. Presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Baroness Orczy wrote them, from the Midnight Archive, Nocturnal Tales' library of the classic detective stories that built the genre.
ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS
These are complete, unabridged readings of A Castle in Brittany and The Bag of Sand by Baroness Orczy, collected in Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (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.
🗳️ YOU CHOOSE WHAT'S NEXT
The Archive is deep — more Lady Molly? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Arsène Lupin? Raffles? Max Carrados? Violet Strange? 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
Two cases, two completely different methods: in one she trusts her instincts on holiday, in the other she disappears into a disguise. Which of tonight's two did you prefer? 🕵️
📖 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
❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS
📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content
https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales
📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenue
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❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time support
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🎧 Spotify — follow the show
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🎧 Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848
🧾 CREDITS
Stories by Baroness Orczy (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.
🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS
baroness orczy audiobook, lady molly of scotland yard, a castle in brittany audiobook, the bag of sand audiobook, lady molly mystery, female detective audiobook, edwardian mystery audiobook, double bill mystery, brittany mystery, disguise mystery story, scotland yard mystery, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery