12 episodes

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!

Casebook of the Marshall Sisters Detective Agency Siobhan Bredin

    • Arts

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!

    Case 12: The Loathsome Lingering Lancashire Legacy

    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
    Case 11: The Curiously Complicated Cryptology Caper

    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?

    • 32 min
    Case 4: The Calamitous Candy Conspiracy Conundrum

    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?

    • 28 min
    Case 10: The Fiendishly Frivolous Foley Fandango

    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.

    • 34 min
    Case 9: The Radical Riveting Radio Revelations

    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
    Case 2: The Perplexing Public Paintings Puzzle

    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?

    • 16 min

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