Cozy Crime

A mass poisoning in the European quarter of colonial Hong Kong begins when hundreds of breakfast tables across Victoria fall suddenly and violently ill on the same January morning, all of them sharing one thing in common: bread from the Esing Bakery on Wyndham Street. A relaxing cozy crime true story told slowly for sleep, quiet listening.

On a cold December morning in 1910, Dorothy Arnold walks out of her family's home on East 79th Street, turns west toward Fifth Avenue, and does not come back, becoming a prominent missing persons case. A relaxing cozy crime true story told slowly for sleep, quiet listening.

Tonight we are in Camden Town in the year 1907. A young woman named Emily Dimmock is dead in a locked room and no one will ever be convicted of killing her. This is a classic true crime mystery, an unsolved murders case from the 20th century that remains a cold case despite initial investigation. Good evening and welcome. There will be no sudden sounds here, no raised voices, nothing to startle yo...

Tonight we travel to the North Atlantic Ocean in the winter of 1872, where a merchant ship, the Mary Celeste, drifts alone beneath grey December skies. This is a real-life unsolved mystery, a chilling ghost ship tale that has puzzled historians for over a century. A relaxing cozy crime true story told slowly for sleep, quiet listening.

In the summer of 1889, a routine investigation at the General Post Office uncovered a secret that reached from the cramped offices of London's telegraph service to the drawing rooms of the aristocracy. Telegraph boys like fifteen year old Charles Swinscow found themselves questioned about visits to Cleveland Street, about the money they had earned and the men they had met.

When William Beadle, a merchant in the small Connecticut river town of Wethersfield, watched his fortune dissolve into worthless paper currency during the years of the Revolutionary War. Then in winter of 1782 his wife Lydia, steps through her own front door with no knowledge of what her husband had been quietly planning. A relaxing cozy crime true story told slowly for sleep, quiet listening.

When Louisa Lowe rang the bell one September evening in 1870, her landlady's unease found its way onto a medical certificate, and within days Louisa was in a carriage bound for Brislington Proprietary Mad-house near Bristol, beginning three years of locked doors, suppressed letters, and a system with every financial reason to keep her exactly where she was. A relaxing cozy crime true story tol...

When three women died in the bathtubs of English boarding houses between 1912 and 1914, each newly married, each having recently made a will in favour of her husband, the deaths were recorded as accidents and their husband quietly collected what had been left to him and moved on. It would take a landlord's troubled letter, a detective's patience, and the careful mind of a pathologist named Spilsbu...

When Eliza Mary Barrow, a spinster of independent means who had taken a young orphaned boy into her care, fell ill and then died at her lodgings in 63 Tollington Park. Her relatives began to ask questions that led, slowly and with gathering weight, to an exhumation, to the findings of a Home Office pathologist, and to one of the most closely watched poisoning trials of the Edwardian era. A relaxin...

When scratching and knocking sounds began appearing around the bed of young Elizabeth Parsons, and when a voice of knocks seemed to accuse a living man of poisoning the woman he had loved, the case became one of the most discussed and debated mysteries of Georgian England. A relaxing cozy crime true story told slowly for sleep, quiet listening.

A suspicious poisoning tale in the mining villages of County Durham, England, begins with Mary Ann Cotton. A trained nurse who moved quietly between households, is linked with a trail of deaths and life insurance policies. A relaxing cozy crime true story told slowly for sleep, quiet listening.

A mysterious murder in the terraced streets of Bermondsey begins when police officers notice a single damp corner on a kitchen flagstone, the mortar around it softer than it should be. Featuring a forged friendship, stolen railway shares, and a Scotland Yard investigation that followed suspects across Britain and Europe by telegraph. A relaxing cozy crime true story told slowly for sleep, quiet li...

Julia Martha Thomas was a small, well-dressed widow who lived alone in a grey stone house on Park Road in Richmond, and her week turned on Sundays. She was difficult, and devout, and she kept a diary, and she went to church because it was the anchor of everything. On the evening of the second of March, eighteen seventy-nine, she walked home through the cold and went inside, and the door closed beh...