S6E4 The Death That Jack Died

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 (unless it's really bad)For Season 6, Jack and I have again decided to go ad-free. I do this because I love mysteries, Jack does it because he loves me. Jack maybe a starving college student but it’s because… We do ask you support the writers of our show. This week it’s Ed Teja. Check him out on his website and social, buy and read his stories, help other readers find him. Make writing for Mysteries to Die For the best decision he could have made. In your review, tell him Tina and Jack said ‘Hi’. https://edteja.com/This is Season 6, Things that Go Jack in the Night. This season contains truly imaginative mysteries around one of the most common words in the English language. From the brandy distilled from hard cider known as applejack to that nefarious one-eyed jack, to the animals, vegetables, fruits, tools, weapons, and slang, the way the word “jack” is used in the English language is truly unique, inventive, and too numerous for me to count. And yes, it is also the name of my piano player and producer. For Episode 4, Jack Be Nimble is the featured jack. This is The Death That Jack Died by Ed TejaFor More 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/B09GMPYQX7ABOUT Jack Be NimbleThe rhyme is first recorded in a manuscript of around 1815. The song was recorded in a collection by James Orchard Halliwell in the mid-nineteenth century called English Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales.[1] It seems the rhyme had two inspirations. One was an English pirate from the late 1500s named Black Jack Smatt, who lived in Jamaica in Port Royal. He was an infamous pirates of the Caribbean who was notoriously smart, quick and nimble to escape from authorities. Which was a good thing as those authorities wanted to capture and hang him.The Jumping candlesticks, as it turns out, was a form of fortune telling and a sport in England. Good luck was said to be signaled by clearing a candle without extinguishing the flame. https://www.firstcry.com/intel....li/articles/jack-be-