S3E4 Gryce & the Leavenworth Case

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 at the heart of mystery, murder, and mayhem. 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 3, Enter the Detective. This season contains adaptations of the first cases for detectives. Some will be characters from book, screen, and stage. Others will be lesser known but with great stories that we hope you give a try.Episode 4 is about love and devotion – right or wrong. This is Gryce and the Leavenworth Case an adaptation of The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katherine Green.Support those who support us. Support comes in lots of forms, not all of them financial. M2D4 is lucky to have the support of some of the best in mystery and podcast. Help show our thanks by supporting them with a read and review, download, or telling a friend.Down and Out Books. Mysteries and thrillers from mainstream publishers leave you feeling like you kissed your best friend? Then you are ready to step down to Down & Out Books. Mystery, thrillers and horror. Gritty. Hard core. Obscure. Twisted. Imaginative. Fantastic. Stories the way you like them. Discover your next amazing read at Downandoutbooks.comVelvet Elvis by Greg F GifuneSonny Cantone’s having a really bad day. Wait until he sees the next 24 hours…From Greg F. Gifune, author of DANGEROUS BOYS and THE BLEEDING SEASON, comes VELVET ELVIS. Set in one hot and crazy night, and populated with hard drinking, pot smoking ex-cons, shady strippers, aging mobsters, crooked cops and sociopathic drug lords, VELVET ELVIS is one man’s dark and sometimes darkly comic descent into madness and mayhem. Available everywhere Oct.18th.Podcast: The Other StoriesBefore there was the order and logic of mysteries, there was the chaos and thrill of horror. The Other Stories carries on the tradition with original, bite sized tales of the macabre, the fantastic, and the unexplainable. It’s one of my go-to podcasts. Subscribe wherever you find your podcasts and make it the next show you listen to. https://theotherstories.net/ Driving Reign by TG Wolff (That’s me!)If your favorite hobby is catching killers, put your skills to the test in the second of my De La Cruz Casefiles, Driving Reign. Was it attempted suicide or murder? Well, if it were suicide, there wouldn’t be a story, but Cleveland police detective Jesus De La Cruz doesn’t know that. What he does know is that there shouldn’t have been two 9-1-1 calls. Read Driving Reign and see if you can untangle the knot before Cruz. Happy Hunting, detective. From Down & Out Books. Available in paperback and e-book from your favorite book seller. Amazon Link. Episode MaterialsThere are several places where you can find the original. Gutenberg is one of them. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4047Background on Anna Katherine Greene https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anna-Katharine-Greenhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Katharine_Greenhttps://crimereads.com/the-rise-and-fall-and-restoration-of-anna-katharine-greens-the-leavenworth-case/everything 1878 https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1878Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqV0RGR3Oh8First moving picture https://www.onthisday.com/photos/first-moving-imagesCast of characters (in the order of appearance)Ebezener Gryce: Detective extraordinaire.Horatio Leavensworth: The BodyJames Trueman Harwell: Leavenworth’s secretaryEleanore Leavensworth: Leavenworth’s orphaned niece, now a young ladyMary Leavesworth: Leavenworth’s niece, Eleanore’s cousin, also orphaned, same age as Eleanore, and Leavenworth’s heir.Thomas Dougherty: the butlerHannah Chase: maid to the Misses LeavenworthMr. Veerley: Leavensworth’s solicitorMr. Everett Raymond: attorney, junior partner to Veerley, represents the cousins and is totally crushing on Eleanore.Fobbs: Cop working for GryceMolly: the upstairs maidHenry Ritchie Clavering: an English citizen in America to whom one of the cousins writesMr. Le Roy Robbins: Caller on the night of Leavenworth’s death, left without seeing him. Mrs. Amy Belden: Widow, befriended the cousins when they vacationed in upstate NY. After the StoryThat wraps this episode of Mysteries to Die For. Support our show by subscribing, telling a mystery lover about us, and giving us a five-star review. Become a member of our Body Bag Brigade by financially supporting this season with a one-time donation. Pay what you can. Information is in the show notes and on our website TGWolff.com/Podcast. DONATE HERE Mysteries to Die For is written by TG Wolff with contribution from Jack Wolff. Gryce & the Leavenworth Case was written by TG Wolff, adapted from The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katherine Green. Music and production and by Jack Wolff. Episode art is by Shannon Leahy.