The Gossamer Gumshoe

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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 pe


    • Dec 25, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 36m AVG DURATION
    • 16 EPISODES


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    Season 1 Part 2 Trailer

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2020 1:50


    The Fall is about to Begin! New Episodes start February 5th, 2021, including "The Locked Door," "Wrong Number", and "The Full Moon Market!" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 15 - The Full Moon Market (Prelude)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2020 50:07


    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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 14 - A Witch's Brew

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2020 59:22


    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 in the heart of South Philly. Guest Starring: May Bronwyn as Alice. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 13 - Fangs Out (Part Five) (FINALE!)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2020 39:16


    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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 12 - Fangs Out (Part Four)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2020 36:14


    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? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 11 - Fangs Out (Part Three)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2020 28:31


    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 down! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 10 - Fangs Out (Part Two)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2020 34:31


    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 to the bottom of things. The real hinky factor: it all might hinge on a spirit in a local graveyard by the name of Claire of the Passage. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 9 - Fangs Out (Part One)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2020 33:16


    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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 8 - Made of Orleans (Part Five) (FINALE!)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2020 31:41


    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"! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 7 - Made of Orleans (Part Four)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2020 35:13


    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 Detective very long to figure out who the real mastermind is behind the entire scheme, and once you know who they are, the question that's left is: does everybody die, does one man die, or can The Detective find a way to thread the needle and get everyone out nice and clean? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 6 - Made of Orleans (Part Three)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2020 33:52


    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 Gold Gilded Statue of Joan of Arc? Or will Johnny Manana have seen his way through all the outcomes? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 5 - Made of Orleans (Part Two)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2020 27:23


    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 to find it, and get it back to Kelly Drive, or the real trouble starts. Things just got complicated. ((Note: there were audio quality problems with the original upload during the first day the file was up. These have been rectified.)) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 4 - Made of Orleans (Part One)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2020 32:52


    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 investigation begins, with the obvious questions: who stole the Gilded Statue of Joan of Arc, and why? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 3 - The Name of the Game

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2020 33:58


    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! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 2 - Easy Money

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2020 47:49


    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? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

    Episode 1 - The Carson Case

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2020 53:22


    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 Detective challenge The Maneater for the fate of Amelia Carson? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-ellis07/support

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