Jack Cassidy is your standard wisecracking, chain-smoking, trenchcoat-sporting PI - the sort you can’t throw a brick without hitting in 1936. But not everyone who arrives at Jack’s offices likes the idea of a dick who is also a dame - and a dame who keeps her hair short and wears men's trousers, at that. Luckily, Jack has no time for palookas who have doubts about lady flatfoots. She’s got enough on her plate, what with the all sinister disappearances, Bolshevist plots, bumbling gangsters, and general mishaps, murder, and mayhem she’s hired to deal with. And then there’s the fact that she still hasn’t sorted out her feelings for her plucky secretary, Effy, or the beautiful but enigmatic femme fatale who needs her help to track down a lost diamond…
Hardboiled is a noir mystery podcast from Empress of Blandings Productions, presented in association with the Edmonton Pride Centre, the Edmonton Heritage Council, the Edmonton Community Foundation, and the Edmonton Arts Council.
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Jack Cassidy is your standard wisecracking, chain-smoking, trenchcoat-sporting PI - the sort you can’t throw a brick without hitting in 1936. But not everyone who arrives at Jack’s offices likes the idea of a dick who is also a dame - and a dame who keeps her hair short and wears men's trousers, at that. Luckily, Jack has no time for palookas who have doubts about lady flatfoots. She’s got enough on her plate, what with the all sinister disappearances, Bolshevist plots, bumbling gangsters, and general mishaps, murder, and mayhem she’s hired to deal with. And then there’s the fact that she still hasn’t sorted out her feelings for her plucky secretary, Effy, or the beautiful but enigmatic femme fatale who needs her help to track down a lost diamond…
Hardboiled is a noir mystery podcast from Empress of Blandings Productions, presented in association with the Edmonton Pride Centre, the Edmonton Heritage Council, the Edmonton Community Foundation, and the Edmonton Arts Council.
Two bumbling criminals get more than they bargained for out of a routine bank heist, and are forced to turn to Jack for help.
Cast: Ceris Backstrom, Lauren Hughes, Michael Vetsch, Rory Turner, Andrés Moreno, Kaleia Odelle
Written and directed by Celia Taylor
Technical direction and editing by Tegan Siganski
Original score and sound design by Dave Clarke, with special guest Nathanael Wilkerson as the pianist
Hardboiled
Jack Cassidy is your standard wisecracking, chain-smoking, trenchcoat-sporting PI - the sort you can’t throw a brick without hitting in 1936. But not everyone who arrives at Jack’s offices likes the idea of a dick who is also a dame - and a dame who keeps her hair short and wears men's trousers, at that. Luckily, Jack has no time for palookas who have doubts about lady flatfoots. She’s got enough on her plate, what with the all sinister disappearances, Bolshevist plots, bumbling gangsters, and general mishaps, murder, and mayhem she’s hired to deal with. And then there’s the fact that she still hasn’t sorted out her feelings for her plucky secretary, Effy, or the beautiful but enigmatic femme fatale who needs her help to track down a lost diamond…
Hardboiled is a noir mystery podcast from Empress of Blandings Productions, presented in association with the Edmonton Pride Centre, the Edmonton Heritage Council, the Edmonton Community Foundation, and the Edmonton Arts Council.
