The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step by Catherine Louisa Pirkis | Loveday Brooke Audiobook

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesOn Christmas Eve, £30,000 worth of jewellery vanishes from Craigen Court. A window was unfastened from inside, the safe was left unlocked, and the thief chalked a mocking message across its empty door: TO BE LET, UNFURNISHED. Suspicion settles upon Stephanie Delcroix, the frightened French maid who held the key. Scotland Yard searches for her lovers, certain the case is simple. Then Loveday Brooke notices a second story in the morning paper. Sixty miles away, a black leather bag has appeared on an elderly spinster's doorstep. It contains a clergyman's belongings and a melodramatic farewell note from a ruined priest whose body cannot be found. The police dismiss it as a tasteless hoax. Everyone else sees a jewel robbery and a practical joke. Loveday sees the same theatrical hand behind both. Undercover below stairs, she follows a book of comic recitations and a vanished amateur actor instead of the obvious suspect. First published in 1893, this complete and unabridged story introduced Loveday Brooke.ℹ️ FOR LISTENERSThis is a complete, unabridged reading of The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, first published in 1893 and now in the public domain. Every word of the story 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 Loveday Brooke? Lady Molly? Violet Strange? Sherlock Holmes? Arsène Lupin? Father Brown? 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 COMMENTSWould you have connected an enormous jewel robbery with a ridiculous black-bag hoax printed elsewhere in the same newspaper? What small detail would have made you suspect the two stories belonged together? 🕵️📖 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 Catherine Louisa Pirkis (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSCatherine Louisa Pirkis audiobook, Black Bag Left on a Door-Step audiobook, Loveday Brooke mystery, Loveday Brooke audiobook, lady detective audiobook, Victorian female detective, early woman detective fiction, Craigen Court jewel robbery, country house robbery mystery, black leather bag mystery, stolen jewellery detective story, French maid accused, female private detective, classic British mystery, public domain audiobook