Arthur Penmoomb was dead. A playwright and sometimes short story writer, the scribe of Madame Mustache's had been murdered the night before the opening of their most ambitious production to date The Curse of the Pharaoh. Was it the Pharaoh's curse? Or did something reach out from Arthur's past? ------ A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...
Jun 14, 2022•24 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Where do the lost dreams of Selene escape and smear into colored streams, flowing into gutters with the rain? where does promise rise and unfurl with the thick red velvet of a curtain? What exactly is a show and how do you draw the line of a stage? A distraction from ourselves, an intoxication, a slight promise. Are we all not actors from moments as we awake? ------ A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.clevert...
Jun 07, 2022•36 min•Season 4Ep. 1
We take comfort that someone is maintaining these wonderful lairs like the Duchess. Like the sound of Vincent’s typewriter spilling words on the page or the sound of a cocktail shaker pouring out the first round as Lloyd tries out a new concoction on Cecil at The Carousel Bar. As Thurston prepares a new soup of the day at The Galliard, as Winston checks in another guest. You can rest assured, there’s always a room available for you at The Duchess. ------ A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreo...
May 31, 2022•8 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Bankers, artists, mavens and magicians, actors and titans and models and musicians, society and even a criminal or two, at the Wormwoord Revelry at the Duchess Radiance Ballroom. The event of the season, where all the decadence on display at the Duchess hotel decorated resplendent in emerald for today. ------ A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...
May 24, 2022•21 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Tonight’s the night, the event of the season, the hotel is bright, lit up like a beacon for the Wormwood Revelry. Everyone is dressed so fine, for a bite and night of absinthe and wine and champagne and glorious treats of confection and …flesh. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. ------ A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan.com Hosted ...
May 17, 2022•24 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Up on the 13th floor of The Duchess hotel - a poisoners card game, Victor's ennui and a Kitchen Quandry. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. ------ A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 10, 2022•18 min•Season 3Ep. 3
What’s a hotel but a place for the wayward shadows of Selene. A place where you can satisfy every indulgence and you don’t have to clean. Steal all the towels and eat soup in bed, play a card game with a Duncan and a poisoner named Fred. The Duchess hotel was built with a dream, and that dream is a dark one where every floor is thirteen. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. ------ A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more...
May 03, 2022•21 min•Season 3Ep. 2
A few days a few nights, some debaucherous fun. Get away from your mundane life and go on the run. At the carousel bar with lights and painted fauna, or deep in the Mollycoddle spa where you can take a steam and a sauna. A fandango or foxtrot at The Radiance Ballroom, up the shakey elevator like a wandering tomb. So come listen again for this new season of Selene, come for a stay at the Duchess hotel, where every floor is thirteen. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lyi...
Apr 26, 2022•23 min•Season 3Ep. 1
A birthday party, an odd gift, and a history lesson. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References: Remember by Christina Rossetti Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll ------ A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 26, 2022•12 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Digging up family secrets and putting something to rest. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References: Remember by Christina Rossetti Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll ------ A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 19, 2022•24 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Viola tours Ludlow and Maise deals with some hard labor. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References: Remember by Christina Rossetti Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll ------ A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 12, 2022•25 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Viola gets some bad news. Charity's morning after and Maise is thrown deeper into a nightmare. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References: Remember by Christina Rossetti Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll ------ A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 05, 2022•24 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Needle street turns up a lead for Viola. Edmund reveals his surprise and Masie meets a nightmare. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References: Remember by Christina Rossetti Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll ------ A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 29, 2022•19 min•Season 2Ep. 3
A visit to Mr. Pedigree's Doll Hospital. Madame Viola asks Hughes to look for something lost. A smoke-filled nightmare. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References: Remember by Christina Rossetti Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll ------ A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
Mar 22, 2022•26 min•Season 2Ep. 2
An ash cloud evolves into something scary, Edmund Greene has a surprise and a Baron's daughter breaks something precious. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References: Remember by Christina Rossetti Tchaikovsky, The Sick Doll ------ A Clever Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...
Mar 15, 2022•24 min•Season 2Ep. 1
The finale of The Black Pond - A rare warm winter night in the park, Charity and Edmund have a date with a wooden cask. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References: Edgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea Rimbaud - Is she an Almah?... ------ A Clever > Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...
Mar 08, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 6
The history of Duncan's Matches, Madame Viola pays the ransom for Plum and Constable Hughes stumbles on an underground dice game. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References: Selene History: Duncan's Matches Selene Slang: Better ask Lenny. Edgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea ------ A Clever > Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan...
Mar 04, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Pumble drowns and we learn the history of Owen McCleary. Charity trapped in a wardrobe and a ghost in Lanula Park. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References: Selene history bit: The Death of Owen McCleary Edgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea ------ A Clever > Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...
Feb 25, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Inspector Bennet and Hughes visit Wegg in the morgue with a surprise Curio guest. Madame Viola's daughters Cornelia and Cooper arrive in to help in the search for Plum. Enocke gets a visit from phrenologist Dr. Quade and a new dental mystery. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References: Selene Recipe: Lavender Viola Selene Mini-Mystery: Dental Conundrum Edgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea ------ A Clever > Than Prod...
Feb 18, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Needle street Interrogations, was Enocke the killer? Stir up some tomato bisque, and help solve a mini-mystery: The Piano Murder. Selene - a narrated mystery anthology set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References: Selene slang: It all goes to Lisa. Selene Recipe: Eleanor's Scarlet Bisque Edgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea ------ A Clever > Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cle...
Feb 11, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 2
A strange city with a quiet park in winter. The broken ice of a black pond. A hunt for a missing boy and the ransom for an exotic bird. Selene - a narrated supernatural mystery set in a strange city, lying alone, resignedly beneath the sky. Episode References: Edgar Allen Poe – City in the Sea Rimbaud – A Dream for Winter ------ A Clever > Than Production. Join our Patreon for more mysteries and lotsa hotsy totsy. https://www.patreon.com/Cleverthan www.cleverthan.com Hosted on Acast. See acas...
Feb 04, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 1
