Forgery at the Bodleian Library, 1891 | Victorian Mystery Audiobook

A full-length Victorian murder mystery audiobook with cinematic illustrations. Oxford, February 1891: the Bodleian Library is about to buy the only letter ever found in Shakespeare's own hand. The night before the sale it vanishes from a locked case, and the young librarian who called it a forgery is accused. Season 1, Case 4 of The Grieve Casebook. Inquiry agent Nathaniel Grieve follows the clues from the Old Schools Quadrangle and Duke Humfrey's Library to the Radcliffe Camera, the Sheldonian Theatre and Broad Street, Great Tom and Christ Church, Holywell Street, Port Meadow, Jericho and the Mitre on the High Street. A bookseller in debt was seen near the library at midnight, an American collector made a secret offer, and ashes of old paper turn up in the wrong grate. You'll hear every clue Grieve hears. Name the culprit in the comments before he does. Chapters 0:00 Prologue: Oxford, February 1891 0:42 Prologue (Oxford, England) 2:34 I. No Fire, No Flame (Old Schools Quadrangle, Oxford) 4:52 II. The Wandering Barge (The Mitre, High Street, Oxford) 6:33 III. A Farmhouse Bible (Broad Street, Oxford) 7:53 IV. The Last Look (The Bodleian Library, Oxford) 9:11 V. One Hundred and One (Tom Quad, Christ Church) 10:35 VI. The Empty Folder (The Bodleian Library, Oxford) 12:18 VII. An American Offer (The Mitre, High Street, Oxford) 13:05 VIII. After Dark in Ship Street (Ship Street, Oxford) 13:44 IX. Ashes in the Grate (Holywell Street, Oxford) 15:14 X. Port Meadow (Port Meadow, Oxford) 16:32 XI. Bark and Barge (The Mitre, High Street, Oxford) 17:26 XII. The Reader's Slip (Duke Humfrey's Library, Oxford) 18:47 XIII. Inside the Folio (Duke Humfrey's Library, Oxford) 20:31 XIV. The Professor's Misprint (Duke Humfrey's Library, Oxford) 22:11 Epilogue (The Mitre, High Street, Oxford) A new Hollow Lantern mystery every evening. Subscribe for Case 5 of The Grieve Casebook tomorrow. This is a work of fiction. Characters and events are invented; Oxford, the Bodleian Library and the places named are real. Narration and images were created with AI tools. #VictorianMystery #Oxford #HollowLantern