No Sinecure & A Jubilee Present by E. W. Hornung | The Midnight Archive — A Raffles Double Bill

📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early ($2.99/month) https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales 🌐 Website — every story we've ever made, free to listen. No paywall, no account, no password. https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com Two cases from the second Raffles collection — the book E. W. Hornung wrote after the one we finished last week. NO SINECURE is how it opens. Bunny is alone. He has served his sentence, he has come out to nothing at all, and he is reading the advertisement columns in the way men do when they have stopped expecting anything from life. One particular advertisement catches his eye. That is as much as we will say about it. It is the most carefully built opening in the whole collection, and it deserves to be heard rather than described. A JUBILEE PRESENT is lighter by a very long way. The Room of Gold at the British Museum, in the summer of eighteen ninety-seven, with the whole Empire in London for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and a gold cup on display that has already survived one attempt. Raffles has views about it. Bunny, who really ought to know better by now, goes along. It is the closest Hornung ever comes to writing pure farce, and it is a useful reminder of why Bunny keeps coming back. ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS This is a complete, unabridged reading of these two stories by E. W. Hornung, collected in Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman (1901) 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 A. J. Raffles? Max Carrados? Loveday Brooke? Judith Lee? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Lady Molly? Raffles? Dr Thorndyke? Arsène Lupin? 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, one bleak and one very nearly a joke, in the same evening. Which of tonight's two did you prefer? 🕵️ 🕒 CHAPTERS 00:00 - Introduction 02:07 - No Sinecure 17:04 - No Sinecure 31:54 - No Sinecure 45:16 - Interlude 46:06 - A Jubilee Present 1:01:21 - A Jubilee Present 1:16:30 - Closing 📖 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 ❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS 📌 Patreon — every new case first, ad-free and early https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales 🌐 Website — every story, free, no account needed https://nocturnaltalespodcast.com 📺 Rumble — free, supports us with ad revenue https://rumble.com/c/c-7820714 ❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time support https://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales 💛 PayPal — one-time tip https://paypal.me/nocturnaltalesprod 🎧 Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nocturnal-tales-mystery-audiobooks-and-crime-stories/id1896195848 🧾 CREDITS Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales. Story by E. W. Hornung (public domain). 🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS e w hornung audiobook, raffles audiobook, no sinecure audiobook, a jubilee present audiobook, raffles further adventures 1901, gentleman thief mystery, gentleman burglar story, british museum heist story, raffles and bunny, classic crime story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery 🏷️ HASHTAGS #NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #Raffles #EWHornung #GentlemanThief #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #VictorianCrime #PublicDomain