The Gossamer Gumshoe
by David Ellis
A Detective who handles the cases in the spaces between spaces faces a crumbling supernatural society as the clock ticks down to something terrible. In the heart of Philadelphia, leads are run down, and the world reckons with the ghosts of its past. As people struggle to keep a collapsing system intact, some heroes just need to get paid.Content Warnings: alcohol abuse, systemic corruption, abuse of authority, police violence, implied abuse, implied child abuse, religious themes, discussion of cults and bigotry excused through religious and societal norms, violence, fascism, sexual themes.
Episodes
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Season 1 Part 2 Trailer
The Fall is about to Begin! New Episodes start February 5th, 2021, including "The Locked Door," "Wrong Number", and "The Full Moon Market!"
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Episode 15 - The Full Moon Market (Prelude)
The Detective is put on retainer for a case he won't talk about that requires that he spent a full day in April trading with various factions throughout Philadelphia in order to fulfill an otherwise impossible task for a client. The results may surprise you.
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Episode 14 - A Witch's Brew
The Detective has a rough start to their day after a bad conversation with Siobhan O'Malley, and ends up taking a case a day earlier than contracted to blow off steam. Unfortunately, there's another witch on the scene, and they don't see eye to eye in what quickly becomes a no-holds-barred duel…
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Episode 13 - Fangs Out (Part Five) (FINALE!)
The Detective and Claire of the Passage have a final problem to resolve in a titanic graveyard smash! but the results of this case may have wider reaching influence than anyone realized.
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Episode 12 - Fangs Out (Part Four)
Who is Claire of the Passage? Who is the Master Vampire? And who sent the blood written letter to Siobhan O'Malley, starting all of this? All is revealed. But that leaves one important question: What is The Detective going to do about it?
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Episode 11 - Fangs Out (Part Three)
The situation quickly becomes dire as The Detective and Claire of the Passage have to protect consecrated ground from a vampiric threat to maintain the peace. But can you really be everywhere at once to protect against anyone? It's up to the Detective to profile the threat and narrow the problem...
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Episode 10 - Fangs Out (Part Two)
After a rough dip in the Schuylkill River, the Detective has to confront the fact that there's an entire army about to be let loose on Philadelphia, and they're responsible. Time to sit back, have a drink, ask all of the people involved what they should have said before the case started, and get…
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Episode 9 - Fangs Out (Part One)
A letter written in blood goes to Siobhan O'Malley threatening to expose the Naming Market, and she thinks its the Vampires of Manayunk. Who gets hired to Investigate? None other than The Detective.
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Episode 8 - Made of Orleans (Part Five) (FINALE!)
The Detective gets waylaid, and faces off with the mastermind behind it all. Can they put the Gilded Statute of Joan of Arc back before Midnight? Or is it all over? Find out in the thrilling conclusion of "Made of Orleans"!
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Episode 7 - Made of Orleans (Part Four)
The Gilded Statue of Joan of Arc, located where you'd least expect it, has some guards you'd least expect. What's a Detective to do? And once you've got that sorted out, how do you resolve the situation without killing anyone? That's where things get complicated, because it doesn't take The...
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Episode 6 - Made of Orleans (Part Three)
It's Time Versus Space in a showdown between The Detective and Johnny Manana. One of them always knows when trouble is about to hit, and the other is always where there's trouble. In a high stakes game of cat and mouse where the clock keeps getting reset, can The Detective get the location of the...
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Episode 5 - Made of Orleans (Part Two)
It's all fun and games until a werewolf throws you through a window. Then it's a case! The Detective is having a rough day as they put two and two together about who has the statue and why it was stolen. But that doesn't give them any idea where it actually is. Worse yet, they have until midnight...
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Episode 4 - Made of Orleans (Part One)
The Detective begins organizing their investigation of the PUP, because what they've done can't be excused by anyone rational. They're interrupted by a spirit they didn't expect, Saint Joan of Arc, whose statue on Kelly Drive has gone missing. Deep in the heart of Philadelphia, a complex...
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Episode 3 - The Name of the Game
The Detective takes a simple case to track down a runaway. There's just one catch: once they start pursuing it, the kid's name fades from the world. Clearly the fey are at work!
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Episode 2 - Easy Money
The Detective is contacted by a pushy client who breaks protocol. For better or for worse though, the client figures out how to follow procedure, and offers a quick five grand to find his wife. The money is just too good, and the client is a werewolf. What could possibly go wrong?
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Episode 1 - The Carson Case
It's a rainy night in March of 2015 in the heart of Philadelphia when The Detective gets contacted by a mother desperately looking for her child, who has clearly been kidnapped with supernatural means. With ticking clock and a life on the line, our hero needs to track down a monster. Can the...
About this show
A Detective who handles the cases in the spaces between spaces faces a crumbling supernatural society as the clock ticks down to something terrible. In the heart of Philadelphia, leads are run down, and the world reckons with the ghosts of its past. As people struggle to keep a collapsing system intact, some heroes just need to get paid.Content Warnings: alcohol abuse, systemic corruption, abuse of authority, police violence, implied abuse, implied child abuse, religious themes, discussion of cults and bigotry excused through religious and societal norms, violence, fascism, sexual themes.
Hosted by
David Ellis