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Phoebe reads a mystery novel. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Full-chapter mystery readings turn witness statements, social motives, and easily overlooked details into patient exercises in detection.
Phoebe Reads a Mystery lets detective fiction unfold chapter by chapter, preserving the patient accumulation of testimony, suspicion, and reversal.
One oversized hat could put your detective instincts on trial beside Lady Molly's.
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Dorian's unchanged face becomes a clue as opium dens and old sins pull him deeper into the night.
Chapter 16 sends Dorian Gray through a cold, rain-blurred city in search of oblivion, with Basil Hallward's memory still pressing on him and his own thoughts offering no release.
Dorian's polished evening curdles into urgency as drawing-room wit gives way to a cab ride shadowed by tragedy.
A drawing-room comedy of wickedness and marriage turns into a close study of Dorian Gray keeping private tragedy sealed behind perfect social ease.
Dorian's quiet morning collapses into a locked-room demand, drawing Alan Campbell into its dreadful aftermath.
A peaceful morning turns into a locked-room crisis in "The Picture of Dorian Gray - Chapter 14," with Dorian waking calmly before the day narrows around an act of desperate concealment.
Dorian's locked room turns hidden guilt into a horror Basil can finally see.
An upstairs door turns Dorian Gray's secret life into something Basil Hallward can no longer avoid, and the episode is strongest in its slow walk toward that room.
A disguise, a missing young woman, and a confession-shadowed case built from household detail.
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard Chapter 8 follows a disguise, a missing young woman, and a death at Eaton Terrace that only grows murkier as the room is searched. Mary goes out in a shabby coat, skirt, and dowdy hat to pass as a cook, while Mrs.
Dorian claims he has changed, and Henry replies with dry, dinner-party irony.
Chapter 19 gives Dorian Gray a carefully paced turn toward self-reckoning, beginning with his claim that he means to change after what he calls a good action the day before.
A taut chapter that turns private fear into a cold, decisive relief.
The chapter keeps Dorian Gray shut away at home, where fear turns ordinary things into omens: a trembling tapestry, dead leaves at the panes, and a face in the mist. The prose stays calm even as the dread tightens, which makes the panic feel sharper and more controlled.
A grave inheritance puzzle that keeps its suspense in the legal details.
A will, a murder, and a social crisis drive this chapter, which moves cleanly from inheritance to suspicion and then into the pressure gathering around Lady Molly.
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman find queer subtext in everything from Anaconda to The Mummy.
The narrator recounts the story of Lady Molly, a detective at Scotland Yard, and her husband Captain Hubert de Marzain, who was falsely convicted for murder in the Baddock Will case.
Dorian Gray grapples with intense guilt and fear after a hunting accident results in a beater's death.
In this mystery chapter, Lady Molly investigates the murder of Mrs.
In the final chapter of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian grapples with his guilt over past sins, including murder, as he confronts the increasingly hideous portrait that bears his moral decay.
In the first chapter of 'Lady Molly of Scotland Yard', Lady Molly and her assistant Mary investigate the murder of Mary Nichols in Ninescore, where a body is found in a pond.
In Chapter 7 of 'Lady Molly of Scotland Yard', a Christmas Eve party at Cleaver Hall turns tragic when Major Seeley is murdered.
In Chapter 4 of 'The Fordwych Castle Mystery', Lady Molly investigates the murder of Runa, a maid involved in an inheritance dispute between sisters Joan and Henriette.
In this chapter of 'Lady Molly of Scotland Yard,' detective Lady Molly investigates the theft of valuable Englehart miniatures from Blatchley House after Mr.
Lady Molly and her companion Mary get involved in a family dispute over the will of eccentric Miss de Genneville, who hid it in a clock that opens only once a year.
In Chapter 19 of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian confesses to Lord Henry that he has spared a village girl out of love, marking his attempt at moral reformation.
In this chapter of 'Lady Molly of Scotland Yard', detective Lady Molly investigates the mysterious assault on Jane Turner, which leads to a blackmail scheme involving the Countess of Hogenburg.
Lady Molly investigates the murder of Mark Culloden, who was poisoned in a café by a woman wearing a large hat.
Lady Molly investigates the disappearance of Leonard Marvel, who vanished after meeting an actress.
In Chapter 3 of 'Lady Molly of Scotland Yard', Mr.
Chapter 16 of Phoebe Reads a Mystery follows Dorian Gray through "cold rain," "ghastly" street lamps, and the opium dens he uses to chase forgetfulness.
At Lady Narborough's 8.30 dinner, Dorian Gray sits through Lord Henry's banter, including jokes about Madame de Ferrol, marriage, and "women who have a past." Lord Henry notices that Dorian looks "rather out of sorts" and keeps asking where he went after leaving before eleven.
Chapter 14 of The Picture of Dorian Gray opens with Dorian Gray waking at nine o'clock under bright sun and a morning that feels 'almost like a morning in May.' He spends the morning on breakfast, letters, sketching, and Gautier's A Mieux à Camille, while Basil Hallward's face keeps reappearing in his drawings and memories.
Basil Hallward tells Dorian Gray, "You have a wonderful influence. Let it be for good, not for evil."
Phoebe Reads a Mystery continues Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray with Chapter 11, Part 2 and Chapter 12, focusing on Dorian’s obsession with beautiful objects and historical decadence.
In The Picture of Dorian Gray - Chapter 11, pt.
Dorian Gray wraps Basil Hallward’s portrait in a purple-and-gold coverlet and has it carried to a locked schoolroom.