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EPISODE · Jul 11, 2026 · 50 MIN

The Musgrave Ritual by Arthur Conan Doyle | The Midnight Archive — Classic Detective Audiobook

from Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories · host Nicolas and Dora – Nocturnal Tales

📌 Patreon — ad-free, early access, bonus content (tiers from $2.99/month)https://www.patreon.com/NocturnalTalesFor three hundred years an old English family has recited the same strange riddle, word for word, father to son — "Whose was it?" "His who is gone." "Who shall have it?" "He who will come." — a meaningless family curiosity, or so everyone believes; then Reginald Musgrave, an old college acquaintance, brings a young Sherlock Holmes a double mystery from Hurlstone, one of the oldest manor houses in Sussex: his butler Brunton, brilliant, restless and far too clever for his station, was caught at midnight poring over the family's Ritual and has since vanished without a trace, and days afterwards the maid he jilted disappears too, while a bag of dull, discoloured metal is dragged from the lake; to find the answer Holmes must pace out the shadow of an elm that no longer stands and lift a flagstone in a forgotten cellar. This is one of the very few cases Holmes tells in his own voice, drawn from the tin box of his earliest work, before Watson ever knew him — presented complete and unabridged, exactly as Arthur Conan Doyle 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 The Musgrave Ritual by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1893 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 Sherlock Holmes? Father Brown? Arsène Lupin? Martin Hewitt? Violet Strange? 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 COMMENTSBrunton was a brilliant man trapped in a servant's life, and he cracked a riddle three centuries of Musgraves never solved. Was he a thief who met the end he deserved — or a clever man punished for being born into the wrong station? 🕵️📖 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❤️ 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 Arthur Conan Doyle (public domain). Narrated and produced by Nocturnal Tales.🔖 TAGS / KEYWORDSarthur conan doyle audiobook, sherlock holmes audiobook, the musgrave ritual audiobook, memoirs of sherlock holmes, reginald musgrave, brunton butler mystery, treasure hunt mystery, riddle mystery audiobook, early sherlock holmes case, classic detective story audiobook, victorian mystery audiobook, public domain audiobook, full-length classic audiobook, unabridged classic mystery🏷️ HASHTAGS#NocturnalTales #MidnightArchive #SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle #ClassicMystery #FullAudiobook #Unabridged #DetectiveAudiobook #VictorianMystery #PublicDomain

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