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A lodge-keeper has been found dead at the gates of a great house, and the county has already settled comfortably on who must have done it.
Miss Loveday Brooke of the Lynch Court agency is about thirty, dresses in plain black, and enjoys the considerable professional advantage of being the sort of woman nobody bothers to watch. She uses it in this one more coldly than in any other.
This is generally reckoned the best of the Loveday Brooke stories, and we think the reckoning is right. Two of you wrote in within hours of each other asking for more Pirkis and more Loveday, which is why it is here.
Written in eighteen ninety-three, by a woman, about a woman doing a job no woman was permitted to do — and Pirkis simply declines to make a fuss about it, which is somehow the most modern thing in it.
ℹ️ FOR LISTENERS This is a complete, unabridged reading of The Murder at Troyte's Hill by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, collected in The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1894) 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 Loveday Brooke? Max Carrados? 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 The whole county has already agreed who did it before she arrives. How early did you start distrusting their opinion? 🕵️
🕒 CHAPTERS 00:00 - Introduction 01:26 - The Murder at Troyte’s Hill 16:25 - The Murder at Troyte’s Hill 31:59 - The Murder at Troyte’s Hill 45:42 - The Murder at Troyte’s Hill 1:00:47 - Closing
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