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EPISODE · Aug 1, 2026 · 52 MIN

An Intangible Clue by Anna Katharine Green | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook

from Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories · host Nicolas and Dora – Nocturnal Tales

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesA box of embroidered linen arrives with the wrong name upon it. A limousine draws up outside a house of mourning. And the silliest little belle of the season walks into a murder room and begins, very sweetly, to count the marks upon the floor. Violet Strange is a petite society debutante who glitters through New York's ballrooms by night and is, in the strictest secrecy, a private detective — nobody suspects her, because nobody could possibly imagine it, and that is precisely why she is so dangerous. This time she is handed a killing the police have already given up on: no motive, no weapon that fits, and nothing whatever to go on but a clue that cannot be picked up, photographed, or shown to a jury — an intangible one. From Anna Katharine Green, the American novelist often called the mother of the detective novel, who was writing best-selling mysteries a decade before Conan Doyle put pen to Baker Street, and whose work both Doyle and Agatha Christie openly admired; 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.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is a complete, unabridged reading of An Intangible Clue 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 NEXTThe Archive is deep — more Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Arsène Lupin? Raffles? Lady Molly? Max Carrados? 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 COMMENTSViolet solves cases precisely because nobody believes a pretty society girl could. Is being underestimated the greatest disadvantage a person can have — or the sharpest weapon? 🕵️📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99📌 Patreon — included with Writing Table & Archive Society, or one-time purchasehttps://www.patreon.com/posts/156573383🛒 Gumroad — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://nocturnaltalespod.gumroad.com/l/ebookvol2❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — EPUB + PDF includedhttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales/e/532495❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus contenthttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenuehttps://rumble.com/c/c-7820714❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales💛 PayPal — one-time tiphttps://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod🎧 Spotify — follow the showhttps://open.spotify.com/show/0OQ7OEseXIMbMt2NTI7oHy🎧 Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848🧾 CREDITSStory by Anna Katharine Green (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSanna katharine green audiobook, violet strange audiobook, an intangible clue audiobook, the golden slipper violet strange, female detective audiobook, mother of the detective novel, early american mystery, society detective story, new york mystery audiobook, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, full-length classic audiobook, unabridged classic mystery

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