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Games are about competition conducted according to rules with participants working toward a goal. Games are a part of every culture and are one of the oldest forms of social interaction and engagement. Games can be fun, challenging and exhilarating. They can also be intense, cutthroat, and lethal. This season, our authors have fashioned deadly games and unscrupulous villains to test your detection skills.
Season 6: Things That Go Jack in the Night
Season 6 contains truly imaginative mysteries around one of the most common words in the English language. From the brandy distilled from hard cider known as applejack to that nefarious one-eyed jack, to the animals, vegetables, fruits, tools, weapons, and slang, the way the word “jack” is used in the English language is truly unique, inventive, and too numerous for us to count. And yes, it is also the name of our co-creator – piano player – producer.
This season contains original stories paying homage to the vehicles that propel mysteries forward. A train was the setting for Agatha Christie’s famed Murder on the Orient Express. A river boat then took center stage on Death on the Nile. Cars have been prominently featured in American crime stories with the glory of the get-a-way vehicle. Then there are the heists from carriages to trains to armored trucks. This season’s authors have incorporate vehicles of all shapes and sizes into whodunnit mysteries just for you.
Polite (and impolite) society has always been fascinated with a person’s final words but none may be more captivated that the mystery writer. From slips of the tongue to cryptic meaning to some other woman’s name, the word before dying can be freeing…or damning. This season contains original stories written just for you and built around that classic mystery theme of the last word before dying.
The detective emerged with the Mystery genre. Or maybe it was vice versa. Season 3 invites you to meet the earliest detectives through adaptations of the first cases for series detectives. Some will be characters you know from book, screen, and stage. Others will be lesser known but with great stories that influence those that followed.
Prior to the 1900s, horror and an drama ruled the bookshelves. Through those stories, a new style of storytelling emerged, one that deduced, followed clues, and held the guilty accountable. Season 2 presents adaptations of the stories that lead to mystery becoming the genre we love today.
Mysteries to Die For began as a way to tell an episodic story – Widow’s Run by TG Wolff. The story’s good but Jack and I were learning how to podcast. So laugh with us as we grow into the podcasters we are now.
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