Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late by Maurice Leblanc | The Midnight Archive - Classic Detective Audiobook

📌 Patreon - ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesAt the Château de Thibermesnil on the Normandy coast, a boastful banker entertains his guests with two prized secrets - a centuries-old hidden passage no one has ever been able to find, and a great hall packed with the treasures his family gathered over hundreds of years - never noticing that one guest, a charming marine painter named Horace Velmont, is listening with rather more interest than the others, and is not at all what he appears to be; that night the treasures vanish through a passage that should not exist, and the very next afternoon the one man who might unravel it steps off the train from England, Sherlock Holmes himself, only to arrive a day too late and walk straight into a duel of wits with the most gracious thief in France, Arsène Lupin, who is always one move ahead and far too well-mannered to gloat; this is the legendary first meeting of Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes, the closing story of Maurice Leblanc's collection that set France's gentleman burglar against England's greatest detective, presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Maurice Leblanc 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 Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late by Maurice Leblanc, first published in 1907 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 Arsène Lupin? More Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Violet Strange? Martin Hewitt? 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 COMMENTSHolmes solves the secret passage - but Lupin solves Holmes, and lifts his watch on the way out, only to politely return it. Can there be honour between two geniuses on opposite sides of the law? 🕵️📖 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/532495Both formats included - EPUB for Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books · PDF for tablets.❤️ SUPPORT & LISTENING OPTIONS📌 Patreon - ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales❤️ 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📚 Children's Book - Sherlock Paws and the Diamond of the Nilehttps://amzn.to/3MRzLNq🧾 CREDITSStory by Maurice Leblanc (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSarsène lupin audiobook, sherlock holmes audiobook, maurice leblanc audiobook, lupin vs holmes, gentleman burglar story, secret passage mystery, château heist mystery, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, full-length classic audiobook, golden age detective fiction