The Grotto Spectre by Anna Katharine Green | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook

For the first time in her life Violet Strange takes a case not for money but for a face — across a crowded musicale she sees a young man marked by a sorrow so deep it stops her heart mid-beat, Roger Upjohn, heir to an old Massachusetts family and the most whispered-about name in society, whose beautiful cold-hearted wife was found dead in her bed of heart failure, the doctors said, though the bruises blackening her wrists told another story and the gossip never stopped; now Roger comes to Violet with a confession, a plea, and a secret hidden in the rocks along his family's coast — an old grotto fitted for gambling and ruin, and now said to be haunted by a spectre no one can explain — and to clear an innocent man she must go where the police never looked, into the grotto and into a grief long mistaken for guilt; this is the work of Anna Katharine Green, the American novelist often called the mother of the detective novel who was writing best-sellers a decade before Sherlock Holmes, and her most beguiling creation the society debutante no one suspects, from The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange, presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Anna Katharine Green wrote it more than a century ago, 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 The Grotto Spectre by Anna Katharine Green, from her 1915 collection and now in the public domain. Every line 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? 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 almost refuses the case on reputation alone, then sees the suffering in his eyes and changes her mind. How often do we convict someone in our heads long before we know a single fact? 🕵️─────────────────────────────📖 GET THE EBOOK — $3.99 (our original mysteries)📌 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 contenthttps://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTales❤️ Buy Me a Coffee — one-time supporthttps://buymeacoffee.com/nocturnaltales🎧 Spotify — follow the showhttps://open.spotify.com/show/0OQ7OEseXIMbMt2NTI7oHy?si=FY8mgTx1SDqBdR7CJgymGw🎧 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 Anna Katharine Green (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSanna katharine green audiobook, violet strange audiobook, the grotto spectre audiobook, the grotto spectre unabridged, mother of detective fiction, female detective classic, haunted grotto mystery, suspicious death mystery, society debutante detective, golden slipper and other problems, victorian american mystery, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, full-length classic audiobook, detective story before sherlock holmes