The Missing Actress Sensation by Ernest Bramah | The Midnight Archive — A Max Carrados Mystery

📌 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 A first night in the West End, and a leading lady who does not appear. By morning the newspapers have a word for it, and the word is sensation. Max Carrados has been blind for many years. He is also, as five separate listeners told us within three days of the last one, the detective you most want more of — so here he is again, from the second collection, published in nineteen twenty-three. Nobody dies tonight. Bramah is unusually good at this register: having spent a whole collection establishing Carrados as formidable, he keeps turning the same faculties on matters no police force would ever hear about, and the detective is visibly happier for it. He does not want a case to be important. He wants it to be interesting. ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Missing Actress Sensation by Ernest Bramah, collected in The Eyes of Max Carrados (1923) 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 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 Several of you have written to say the cases without violence are the ones you enjoy most. Would you like more of the Archive's gentle ones? 🕵️ 🕒 CHAPTERS 00:00 - Introduction 01:20 - The Missing Actress Sensation 17:24 - The Missing Actress Sensation 31:52 - The Missing Actress Sensation 55:52 - The Missing Actress Sensation 1:02:59 - 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 Ernest Bramah (public domain). 🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDS ernest bramah audiobook, max carrados audiobook, the missing actress sensation audiobook, the eyes of max carrados 1923, blind detective mystery, theatre mystery audiobook, west end london mystery, cosy classic mystery, classic detective story audiobook, public domain audiobook, unabridged classic mystery 🏷️ HASHTAGS #NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #MaxCarrados #ErnestBramah #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #BlindDetective #CozyMystery #PublicDomain