S5E1 Party Boat by Ed Teja

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.Support our show by subscribing, telling a mystery lover about us, and giving us a five-star review. And mystery readers, check out our print and e-books. Last season’s companion, A Word Before Dying, is available in trade paperback from Amazon and e-book everywhere. Celebrate the start of our new season with your order and receive 20% off the original price.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 1, a chartered fishing boat is the featured vehicle. This is Party Boat by Ed TejaABOUT Ed TejaEd Teja is a writer, a poet, a musician, and world traveler. His stories and poems are about the people and places he knows, odd corners of the world that often disappear into the margins, and the amazing, often strange, people he meets while moving between the cracks.Living as a boat bum in the Caribbean and on the Spanish Main, he earned his living playing blues in waterfront bars, working as a deckhand for charter skippers, and freelance writing. The life brought him in contact with quirky characters and developed his appreciation for twisted stories.Find Ed at https://edteja.com/MORE from Ed TejaFrom author Ed Teja, if you like salty adventure, with crimes as varied as the people on the waterfront, check out Martin Billings. The ex-Seal runs a Caribbean freighter with Ugly Bill, managing to get himself dragged into mysteries, conspiracies, and an ocean full of trouble. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08H1YVB59If you like lighter mysteries, check out Matt Cramer in the Surreal Southwest. He’s a private investigator in the little town of Silver City, New Mexico. As one reviewer said about AN IMPOSSIBLE ABDUCTION: “Missing people, aliens, witches shaman and ravens … all rolled into one weirdly comical fast moving novel.” https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GMPYQX7DELIBERATIONAll right, mystery lovers, Captain Ed Teja has given us a salty mess to sink our teeth in to. Here is the list of people the Sheriff Bart Hadley and Deputy Sheriff Max Charles are investigating in the death of Dexter Wilde from the party boat:Captain Bill Mix, current skipper of the Effing Fun Run, former skipper of the correctional facility where Dexter Wilde had a stintSandy Travers, crew on the Effling Fun Run, the fishing boat she used to own that she now mops up deadmen’s bloodDorothy Wilde, happy to be newly widowed and can’t wait to burn her a-hole husband to ashArtie Coughlin, regional salesman who needs the Polder sale to keep his wife, his job, and his sanityAnne Coughlin, Artie’s wife and college friend of Jan Polder, she sees her husband get cut out of the big dealsJan Polder, the slippery fish Dexter Wilde and Artie Coughlin is trying to land Now, here are the clues we have to work with:Dexter Wilde was shot at close range with a .38; Captain Bill’s .38 is missing. It hasn’t been proved or disproved that his gun was the murder weapon Dexter Wilde fought with everyone: Artie Coughlin: over accepting the counteroffer proposed by Jan PolderCaptain Bill: over Dexter going straight and turning down the dealJan Polder: over turning down the deal Dorothy Wilde: while they didn’t fight on the boat, it is implied that he abused her – psychologically if not physicallyAnne Coughlin: while she was didn’t have words with Wilde, she was involved in the scam that Wilde was going to pass on. If Wilde died, Artie could accept the deal.Sandy Travers: She doesn’t play well with others and has a reputation for a temper and a thin skin — she doesn’t mind getting into fights. Just because no one saw her argue with Wilde, he might have said something to her that got him killed.Whose name are you writing on the arrest warrant?WRAP UPThat 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. Party Boat was written by Ed Teja. Music and production are by Jack Wolff. Episode art is by TG Wolff.