Murder Through Time: A Whodunit Across the Centuries

Welcome, sleuth, to tonight's case. Tonight we board the Orient Express in the summer of 1937, as the famous train carries its passengers across a Europe standing uneasily on the edge of change. Inside the sleeping cars and dining compartments, diplomats, aristocrats, journalists, and businessmen share the journey. Everyone behaves as though the world beyond the train's windows can be safely ignor...

Welcome, sleuth, to tonight's case. Tonight we travel to Alexandria, Egypt, in the final years of the Ptolemaic dynasty, where the great Lighthouse of Alexandria rises above a storm-darkened Mediterranean Sea. Inside the Pharos, every signal is watched carefully. Every ship entering the harbor is accounted for. And every secret passing through Alexandria is guarded closely. Until one night, during...

Welcome, sleuth, to tonight's case. Tonight we travel to Vienna in 1782, where candlelight flickers across the gilded halls of the Burgtheater and rehearsals are underway for Mozart’s bold new German opera, Die Entführung aus dem Serail . The Emperor himself is expected to attend. For some, the production represents the future of opera in Vienna. For others, failure would mean humiliation before t...

Welcome, sleuth, to tonight's case. Tonight we travel to Granada, in the final years of the Nasrid dynasty—the last Muslim kingdom in Iberia, standing on the edge of its fall. Beyond the palace, the forces of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon press steadily forward. Within its walls, loyalties begin to divide—between those who would endure… and those who believe survival now require...

Welcome, sleuth, to tonight's case. Tonight we travel to the royal court of Xerxes I, in the early fifth century BCE. At Susa, the heart of the Achaemenid Empire, power is measured not only in armies and conquest, but in proximity-who may enter, who may speak, and who is permitted to remain unseen. Within the women's household, life unfolds in quiet precision. Attendants move through their duties...

Welcome, sleuth, to tonight's case. A hidden room beneath a quiet storefront. Jazz spilling into the early hours. Drinks poured where the law cannot reach. In 1923 Chicago, Prohibition did not end the night- it simply moved it underground. Inside the Canary room, secrets pass as easily as cash. Conversations are half-heard. Deals are made in shadow. And before the night is over, something will go...

Welcome, sleuth, to tonight's case. Tonight we travel to Paris in the late nineteenth century. Montmartre glows beneath the lamps of the Moulin Rouge, where music, laughter, and spectacle draw artists, aristocrats, and curious visitors into the long nights of the Belle Époque. Behind the red-painted windmill lies a world of dancers, painters, patrons, and quiet ambition, where admiration can carry...

Welcome, sleuth, to tonight's case! Venice, early seventeenth century. Carnival fills the city with masks, music, and movement, blurring the line between public spectacle and private intention. Beneath the festivities, the city is governed by elite families, rigid expectations, and private arrangements made quietly, often after dark. A death in the canal appears unremarkable, until it is examined...

Welcome, sleuth, to tonight's case! Step behind the vermilion walls of the Forbidden City during the reign of Emperor Kangxi (1661-1722), where ritual and rank govern every movement, and silence can speak louder than words. Tonight, a quiet death in the Inner Court shakes the carefully ordered world of Grand Secretary Xu Wenjin. Was it misfortune, misapplied routine, or something far more delibera...

A lavish Georgian banquet. Fine wine poured. Civil smiles exchanged. By the end of the night, someone will pay the price. In this debut episode of Murder Through Time, a single evening in Georgian Bath becomes a puzzle of motive and opportunity. Those gathered for the night find themselves caught in a web of resentment, secrecy, and quiet calculation, where even the smallest gesture may conceal in...

A murder has been committed somewhere in history. Murder Through Time is a historical murder mystery podcast where each episode drops you into a different era, a different crime, and a different cast of suspects. Each case is fictional, but set within real moments in history and shaped by the customs, dangers, and social rules of the time. One case. A web of suspects. Clues hidden in plain sight....