Welcome to Mysteries to Die For.

I am TG Wolff and am here with Jack, my piano player and producer. This is a podcast where we combine storytelling with original music to put you in the heart of a mystery. Some episodes are original stories, others will be classics that helped shape the mystery genre we know today. All are structured to challenge you to beat the detective to the solution. These are arrangements, which means instead of word-for-word readings, you get a performance meant to be heard. Jack and I perform these live, front to back, no breaks, no fakes, no retakes.

This is Season 5, Move It or Lose It. 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.

For Episode 8, a prized Percheron is the featured vehicle. (That’s a horse.) This is GTA: Pennsylvania Dutch by Ken Harris

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ABOUT Ken Harris

Ken Harris retired from the FBI, after thirty-two years, as a cybersecurity executive. With over three decades writing intelligence products for senior Government officials, Ken provides unique perspectives on the conventional fast-paced crime thriller. He is the author of the “From the Case Files of Steve Rockfish” series. He spends days with his wife Nicolita, and two Labradors, Shady and Chalupa Batman. Evenings are spent playing Walkabout Mini Golf and cheering on Philadelphia sports. Ken firmly believes Pink Floyd, Irish whiskey and a Montecristo cigar are the only muses necessary. He is a native of New Jersey and currently resides in Virginia’s Northern Neck. https://kenharrisfiction.com/

MORE from Ken Harris

Ken Harris returns, along with PIs Steve Rockfish and Jawnie McGee, with A Bad Bout of the Yips: From the Case Files of Steve Rockfish – 3 from Black Rose Writing.

Rockfish & McGee uncover a laser-focused plan of intimidation targeting their clients via vandalism and intolerance. The return of an old nemesis compels them to fight on two fronts. The frenetic ride traverses from a corporate setting, across cyberspace, and to a showdown where everything changes for the partners.

Check out the first two adventures The Pine Barrens Stratagem and See You Next Tuesday, available in paperback and audio.

DELIBERATION

Ken has served us up a hand churned conundrum for Rockfish and McGee with this one. What started out as a horse-napping has turned into murder and maybe more. Here are the charming residents of this small Pennsylvanian town in the order we met them:

• Mildred Ebersole, the client, an Amish woman who separated godliness and cleanliness
• Hannah Ebersole, the client’s niece, who doesn’t say a word without permission
• Zebadiah Ebersole, the client’s nephew, also mute unless commanded
• Rude man in wheelchair, an almost regular at Rutherford’s, who runs into Jawnie
• Pizza Face, clerk at Rutherford’s, putting his time in until something better comes along
• Clarence, the dead man, a drunk in a dry county willing to sell secrets

And now for the facts:

• Mildred’s prize horse was stolen and she doesn’t want to involve the police to avoid publicity.
• Mildred has a satchel of cash that doesn’t match up with her poor appearance.
• The horse, Floyd, was being held in a barn at the location Clarence passed to Jawnie. Before Rockfish and Jawnie could move in, the horse is rode out and Clarence is dead.
• A dropped match book points them to McMurray’s garage and the building behind it.
• Floyd is in the McMurray’s garage along with a moonshine still. The bottles match the ones Clarence drank from at Rutherford’s.
• Not a fact, but Rockfish and Jawnie suspect the clerk known as Pizza Face is connected to something…or everything.

For a broasted chicken and Dutch apple pie, what the heck is going on?

WRAP UP

That wraps this episode of Mysteries to Die For. Please do support our show by subscribing, telling a mystery lover about us, and giving us a five-star review. Check out our website TGWolff.com/Podcast for links to this season’s authors.

Mysteries to Die For is hosted by TG Wolff and Jack Wolff. GTA: Pennsylvania Dutch was written by Ken Harris. Music and production are by Jack Wolff. Episode art is by TG Wolff.