Casebook of the Marshall Sisters Detective Agency

Siobhan Bredin

It's the bee's knee's in roaring 1920's Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the Marshall Sisters work for social justice by solving cases involving suffragists, civil rights advocates, labor organizers, mediums, bootleggers, secret society members, movie directors, journalists, and vaudeville impresarios!

  1. 12/03/2024

    Case 14: The Singular Sneaky Speakeasy Swindle

    Case 14 in the Casebook of the Marshall Sisters Detective Agency performed November 16 2024 at CCTV Cambridge. It’s 1929 in Cambridge, MA, and once again the Marshall sisters are in the middle of a mystery… Why has Mrs. Meyers reopened her Scenic Temple Vaudeville Theater? What is causing Queenie’s “Refined Ladies Tea Shoppe” Speakeasy to have less customers? And why are dueling Hollywood talkie directors STILL lurking about shooting “reality” films?

    31 min
  2. Case 12: The Loathsome Lingering Lancashire Legacy

    06/13/2022

    Case 12: The Loathsome Lingering Lancashire Legacy

    June 11, 2022 performance of this original mystery play by Siobhan Bredin - Episode 12 in The Casebook of the Marshall Sisters Detective Agency. It’s 1929 in Cambridge, MA, and government cryptologists have once again determined that a local speakeasy is importing and selling bootlegged liquor!!! • Will the Marshall Sisters be able to prevent their friend Queenie from going to the hoosegow? • How will they deal with a shocking secret from their family’s past? • And what has happened to their resident mystic?

    35 min
  3. Case 11: The Curiously Complicated Cryptology Caper

    04/30/2022

    Case 11: The Curiously Complicated Cryptology Caper

    It’s 1929 in Cambridge, MA, and, as usual, lots is happening! . . . Why has the Queen of the Bootleggers returned from Hollywood in the wake of her smash hit talkie? . . . Why is ground-breaking codebreaker, Elizebeth Smith Friedman, hiring the Marshall Sisters Agency? . . . Will Adina White, local Afro-American artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, be featured in Dorothy Arzner’s next talkie?

    33 min
  4. Case 4: The Calamitous Candy Conspiracy Conundrum

    05/30/2020

    Case 4: The Calamitous Candy Conspiracy Conundrum

    It's 1927 and Cambridge is home to the world's largest candy factory, but...under the sugary delights, mystery lurks! Can sister detectives, Alice and Louise Marshall, solve the mysterious disappearance of factory labor organizer, Ann McAllister, by smashing music boxes?

    29 min

  5. 05/17/2020

    Case 10: The Fiendishly Frivolous Foley Fandango

    It's the bee's knees in 1920's Cambridge, MA in Case #10 in The Casebook of the Marshall Sisters Detective Agency, as our heroines track down mysterious threats to the local radio station owner, learn more about social justice activists and Cambridge residents who helped to found the NAACP, and create a time capsule to celebrate the contributions of Cambridge women to the suffrage movement.

    35 min
  6. Case 9: The Radical Riveting Radio Revelations

    06/11/2019

    Case 9: The Radical Riveting Radio Revelations

    Case 9 in the Marshall Sisters Detective Agency Casebook. It's 1929 and broadcast radio has come to Cambridge! . . . What shocking secrets about the women’s suffrage movement will be revealed? . . . Who will return from beyond the veil through Madame Mystica? . . . Why are Hollywood directors hanging around capturing reality-based action scenes?

    27 min
  7. Case 2: The Perplexing Public Paintings Puzzle

    09/21/2018

    Case 2: The Perplexing Public Paintings Puzzle

    Who is destroying the public murals funded by FDR to raise morale during The Great Depression? • Can sister detectives Alice and Louise get to the bottom of the sabotage and save these works of art for the people?

    17 min
  8. Case 1: The Sinister Seance Swindle Scenario

    09/21/2018

    Case 1: The Sinister Seance Swindle Scenario

    BOSTON, MA 1919 . . . . . . . . • Is self-proclaimed medium Madame Veretsky helping those who have lost loved ones in World War I OR...preying on sorrowful women to get large fees? • Can our plucky heroines solve this baffling mystery and help their cousin escape the clutches of Mme V?

    21 min
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It's the bee's knee's in roaring 1920's Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the Marshall Sisters work for social justice by solving cases involving suffragists, civil rights advocates, labor organizers, mediums, bootleggers, secret society members, movie directors, journalists, and vaudeville impresarios!

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