📖 A teapot lid in the wrong place, a watering can by the wrong gate, a first-edition Edward Thomas returned to a bookshop shelf after forty years missing. In the small Cotswold village of Hawthorn-on-Lea, gentle things have begun to move, and only Margaret Pim, a retired hospital librarian with a notebook and a tortoiseshell cat called Mrs. Hudson, has noticed the pattern.In this gentle bedtime mystery, nothing is stolen. Nothing is broken. The mystery is a quiet one, of misplaced teapots and roses that bloom again, of a village learning to remember what it had almost forgotten. With the help of the elderly bookseller Mr. Aldridge, her sister Phyllis, and the parish vicar, Margaret follows a trail of small kindnesses to a shuttered cottage at the edge of the wood, and to a story that is, in the end, less about solving a crime than about understanding a sorrow.Told in unhurried first-person prose, with the smell of woodsmoke, the sound of a church bell at six, and the soft fog of an October morning, this is a mystery for the slow hours, for the bedside lamp, for anyone who has ever noticed that something is just a little out of place.A BEDTIME SLEEP STORIES FOR GROWNUPS production, voiced by Eleanor Voss.00:00 — A teapot lid, in the wrong place04:12 — Margaret begins her notebook08:30 — The first-edition Edward Thomas, returned12:45 — A Sunday walk with Phyllis17:00 — A wooden bird, in the churchyard21:30 — The shuttered cottage at the edge of the wood26:00 — Margaret writes a letter29:40 — A knock at the doorCozy mystery, English village, amateur detective, slow listening, gentle pacing, late autumn, for fans of Miss Marple and the vicar's-wife school of detection.This episode was created with AI assistance. The investigation was researched and verified across multiple sources, then narrated in a calm, contemplative tone.DISCLAIMER 📢Bedtime Sleep Stories For Grownups is an independent production by HustleStudios. The stories and topics discussed are for entertainment and informational purposes only. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect HustleStudios or its affiliates.Some names and details may be altered to protect privacy. Listener discretion advised. All content protected under copyright law.This episode might be ad-supported. Support us on Patreon for ad-free episodes, early access, and exclusive promos.👉 Check our Patreon👉 Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts📻 Listen to Hustle Studios Radio 24/7!🎧 radio.hustlestudios.net/live🔊 All our podcasts — playing back to back, anytime!

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