Daisy Pettles: Women's Comedy & Mystery
33 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings"Murder She Wrote meets the Golden Girls," Award-winning southern cozy mystery crime comedy series "Shady Hoosier Detective Agency" by Daisy Pettles, featuring amateur old lady sleuths RJ and Veenie; "Ghost Busting Mystery," Book 1 awarded Best Indie Humor Book by Indie Reader; Performed by award-winning playwright Layce Gardner
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Episode 33 : A Ghostly Happily Ever After - Ghost Busting Mystery
November 29, 2019 18:07 - 12 minutes - 28.3 MBTune into the final—oh no!!!—episode of Season 1 of The Shady Hoosier Detective Agency, Ghost Busting Mystery, to discover what Dode’s tractor unearths. Learn if our intrepid old lady detectives manage to pocket their just reward. If you enjoyed Season1, show your love by hitting the “LIKE” heart and leaving an encouraging comment or two. If Season 1 receives enough LIKES, FOLLOWS, and COMMENTS we’ll keep broadcasting! ATTENTION Want MORE free content from Daisy Pettles and her gang? Be su...
Episode 32: Limestone Bible Story - Ghost Busting Mystery
November 29, 2019 16:30 - 9 minutes - 22.3 MBChicken and dumplings and an apple crumb pie cheer our gang up. Dode presents an unexpected gift to our hard-working detective duo. Things take a sharp turn toward hope when Dode is able to interpret a critical case clue that has had our gals stumped. Could the case be solved at long last? Tap the “GO” button on this episode to discover what surprises lurk in the old stone cellar besides winter apples from the Wyatt orchard. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist...
Episode 31: Chicken and Dumplings - Ghost Busting Mystery
November 29, 2019 16:11 - 9 minutes - 22.8 MBIt’s a depressingly dark day at the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency. The case isn’t solved. No one got locked up. Our detectives are flat busted broke. If there is a lost treasure, it may be gone for all eternity. Our amateur sleuths consult Queet, the town librarian, hoping for insight on the one clue they have. All seems lost until Dode invites our senior snoops over for a fresh pot of chicken and dumplings. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as PI Ruby Jane ...
Episode 30: Gold Diggers in Gremlins - Ghost Busting Mystery
November 29, 2019 15:50 - 12 minutes - 12.9 MBOur baby boomer gal pals locate the Gremlin and Darnell at long last. Ruby Jane musters her wits and Veenie musters her BB gun. The duo closes in on the perp, determined to bag some bounty. Darnell, as always, is full of surprises. Our intrepid oldster detectives discover that he isn’t operating solo. Tune-in to find out who gets hog tied and left for the law under the old covered bridge. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as PI Ruby Jane Waskom (and everybody ...
Episode 29: Old Porcupine Lady - Ghost Busting Mystery
November 22, 2019 15:29 - 9 minutes - 20.9 MBDickie, Veenie’s boyfriend, returns the old Impala all spiffed up. He reports that Darnell and the stolen Gremlin are parked on top of the knobs. Veenie and RJ zoom up the knobs, hoping to bag Darnell and some bounty money, only to discover that the Gremlin has vanished … once again. Our senior detectives are in despair until Pooter, town snitch, sells them some mighty tasty and gossip tidbits. Say Howdy to Daisy Pettles, and show your love of laughter. Buy your own personal copy of The Sha...
Episode 28: Sticky-Fingered Friends - Ghost Busting Mystery
November 22, 2019 15:12 - 9 minutes - 21.4 MBRuby Jane and Veenie put their heads together to theorize on what they saw at the mansion the night before. Melvin claims the Feds have searched the haunted house basement to roof and declared the site clean. No ghosts. No treasure. No nothing. Yet odd events keep happening in the apple orchard. Meanwhile, Junior reports that sticky-fingered Darnell has stolen a lot more than anyone previously suspected. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as PI Ruby Jane Waskom...
Episode 27: Noisy Dead People – Ghost Busting Myster
November 22, 2019 14:03 - 11 minutes - 11.8 MBThe case may be officially closed, but gosh darn those ghosts are back. Sheriff Boots drives Ruby Jane and Veenie out to the mansion to check on more ghost sightings. Seeing lights and suspicious activity at the old mansion, the Sheriff moves in. He forbids RJ and Veenie to follow him into danger inside the dark haunted mansion. Do our intrepid old lady detectives behave themselves? Eavesdrop to find out. Push play and join in on the southern mystery capers at the Shady Hoosier Detective Ag...
Episode 26: Frying Big Fish – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 22, 2019 13:46 - 10 minutes - 24.5 MBRJ reluctantly agrees to go on a date with Sheriff Boots. The pair attends the annual Boy Scout fish fry. Harry, the boss, mopes about his broken heart and busted bank account. The day looks dark until Sheriff Boots reveals that our gang can earn a generous bounty by bringing in the less than reputable medium, Kandy, and her criminal sidekick. But where is Kandy? Tune in to our southern crime comedy to find out if our baby boomer snoopsters succeed in bagging their daily quota of hillbilly h...
Episode 25: Who Did What? – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 22, 2019 13:34 - 16 minutes - 38.7 MBBusted trying to stir up another ghost séance, our country detectives find themselves in an undesirable place. Veenie stands accused of committing a felony. Sadly enough, there may be some truth in that accusation. A couple of folks hanging out in Knobby Waters turn out to be very shady characters. Surprises slide around every corner as our oldster lady detectives struggle to arrange the clues into a decipherable picture. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as P...
Episode 24: Battle of Wits – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 22, 2019 13:21 - 13 minutes - 31 MBThe old Impala still in the shop, Harry takes our detective duo, and Kandy, the medium, out to the mansion to stir up the spirits for a second séance. Tune in to this episode of The Shady Hoosier Detective Agency to discover what obstacles await them, and how our clever old lady sleuths manage to confuse and baffle their much younger, and less nimble-witted, opposition. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as PI Ruby Jane Waskom (and everybody else too.) ...
Episode 23: The Chase is On - Ghost Busting Mystery
November 18, 2019 15:38 - 11 minutes - 27.4 MBVeenie and Ruby Jane spot a woe-be-gone creature bouncing down Main Street in Knobby Waters. Veenie thinks it might be Puddles, the lost wiener dog. The detective duo scrambles off toward Pokey’s Tavern in hot pursuit. Dial-in to discover if our intrepid women snoops are successful in claiming the crisp $100 reward, or if they get done in by a drunk and disorderly lapdog. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as PI Ruby Jane Waskom (and everybody else too). ...
Episode 22: Ready to Party (Again) – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 18, 2019 15:03 - 8 minutes - 19.8 MBJunior accuses his mama, Veenie, of stealing his Harley bike to take pleasure rides. He and Darnell zoom off for a band gig at the Stumble on Inn. Kandy tells the gals that she’s all juiced up for another séance. Our Hoosier sleuthing gang sets a date for another ghostly party as RJ ignores a mess of bothersome calls from Sheriff Boots. (Heh, probably not a wise move on her part.) Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as PI Ruby Jane Waskom (and everybody else ...
Episode 21: Saving Poor Puddles – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 15, 2019 17:08 - 11 minutes - 26.5 MBRuby Jane is worried sick about the detective agency’s unpaid bills, and the impending lack of a paycheck, when Veenie suggests that the detective duo take on a quick new case. Puddles, a blind wiener dog, has gone missing, and there’s a $100 reward. Their 1960 Impala in the shop for repairs, our senior PIs set off in Veenie’s homemade go-kart to consult on their new case. Tune-in to find out what has happened to poor Puddles as our gal pals struggle to scrape up enough cash to last to payda...
Episode 20: Husband Hunting – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 15, 2019 16:08 - 13 minutes - 30.6 MBAs Sassy, Queen of the Pawpaw County Senior Cougars, prepares for her VFW dance date with Melvin, Veenie and RJ relax over some late-night TV. After getting into a tiff about whether or not to dig for lost treasure at the haunted mansion—RJ votes NO—our oldster lady detectives lapse into a sullen night with the men of Bonanza. Tune-in to see who wins the day—and the gold-digging argument. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as PI Ruby Jane Waskom (and everybody ...
Episode 19: Sassy Big Wheels – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 15, 2019 15:48 - 14 minutes - 32.4 MBThe old Impala in the shop, are once again on the prowl. The detective duo uncovers a surprise stash of items in the old apple Veenie’s boyfriend, Dickie, gifts the gals a new set of wheels. The new wheels turn out to be less than idea, but, hey, our inventive oldsters make do. Dode calls Ruby Jane and Harry out to the farmhouse where ghosts orchard. Footprints clue RJ that Dode’s mysterious orchard ghosts may be very-very alive. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novel...
Episode 18: Foiled by Feds – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 15, 2019 15:28 - 13 minutes - 31.4 MBRuby Jane is taxed by having to explain all the odd comings and goings to her boarder, Sassy, and Sassy’s new beau, Melvin. Sheriff Boots gives Ruby Jane unexpected info about the mysterious Gremlin before forbidding her—AGAIN—to hold another séance at the mansion. Boots refuses to discuss the case or why the Feds are in town. Tune in to find out how our feisty oldster lady detectives give everyone the run around. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as PI Ruby J...
Episode 17: Purple Gremlins – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 11, 2019 18:32 - 14 minutes - 33.3 MBPooter Johnson, light-fingered truant, meets our senior gal pals at the covered bridge. When pressed by Veenie to admit that he stole the Harley, Pooter denies everything, confessing only to be the sales agent. Seeing a mysterious 1970 purple Gremlin parked down by a river camp RJ tells Pooter they have to drive back to town to get the money to buy the bike. She and Veenie sneak down to the river camp hoping to catch the bike thief red handed. Who or what do they find lurking inside the myst...
Episode 16: Hot Harley for Sale – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 11, 2019 18:25 - 12 minutes - 28.5 MBSpooked by the séance, our senior gal pals retreat homeward to find their boarder, Sassy, resident senior cougar, entertaining a new man friend, Melvin. RJ shrugs off Sassy’s husband hunting antics as she updates her on the peculiar happenings at the mansion. Meanwhile, Veenie discovers Junior’s stolen Harley for sale online. She and RJ hatch a plot to entrap the seller. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as PI Ruby Jane Waskom (and everybody else too). Say Ho...
Episode 15: Chatting with the Dearly Departed – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 10, 2019 21:16 - 16 minutes - 37.1 MBAs the storm rages, our home-grown lady detectives, and Kandy, the medium, strike up a séance. Strange things begin to happen inside the mansion. Apparitions appear. Voices moans from the cracked walls of the haunted house. Ghosts—if that’s what it is—issue a dire warning, adding credibility to the old legend that a treasure of gold may be hidden on the old homestead. Listen in as the séance heats up, and our gang of sleuths are left with their knees knocking and more questions than answers...
Episode 14: A Dark and Stormy Night – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 10, 2019 21:09 - 11 minutes - 26.8 MBDode, equipped with enthusiasm, flashlights, and a fully loaded rifle, welcomes the motley gang of crime-busters. Veenie and Ruby Jane brush aside Dode’s worries that Sheriff Boots has roped off the mansion, forbidding anyone to cross the crime tape. A pair of surprise visitors arrive in the storm, determined to join the séance. The gang gathers their nerve, determined to enlist the energy of a wicked thunderstorm to stir up the slumbering specters. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning p...
Episode 13: Love at the Moon Glo – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 10, 2019 20:52 - 14 minutes - 32.2 MBVeenie and Ruby Jane zoom to the Moon Glo Motor Lodge, Pawpaw County’s palace of hillbilly hanky-panky, to pick up Kandy, the medium. Neither are surprised to discover the boss, Harry, courting Kandy in his skivvies. Rousting the couple out of their seedy love nest, the gang heads to Dode’s farm to scare up the spirits. Listen in to see what happens as our home-grown gang of oldster detectives prepare for a showdown séance at the mansion. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright a...
Episode 12: Trouble with the Law (Again) – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 10, 2019 20:36 - 11 minutes - 26.7 MBDriving Fergie Junior and his new friend, Darnell, home, Ruby Jane and Veenie drive straight into a heap of trouble. The boys try to pretend they’re not really stoned while Veenie tries to distract an angry Sheriff Boots with some hot, greasy onion rings. Tune-in to see how RJ manages to sweet talk the local law, and pull the gang out of tight jam, once again. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as PI Ruby Jane Waskom (and everybody else too). Sound Bytes: Zaps...
Episode 11: Cheesy Mystery Meat Sandwiches – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 10, 2019 20:28 - 21 minutes - 49.1 MBVeenie shakes Ruby Jane awake in the middle of the night with an urgent new mystery. Fergie Junior, Veenie’s shiftless grown son, has had his Harley stolen. He needs a ride home from Pokey’s Tavern where his band, “The Lonely Lip Lizards,” headlines. Grumbling, our detective grannies speed to the tavern. They grab a mid-night snack of cheesy mystery meat sandwiches while interrogating a mysterious interloper who’s joined Junior’s band. Click-in to hear how Pokey Tatlock, tavern owner, challe...
Episode 10: Missing Baby and Bags of Gold – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 10, 2019 20:12 - 12 minutes - 29.1 MBOur intrepid oldster detectives interrogate Randy Ollis, whose great, great, great Grandma, Alta Iona, married the scoundrel bank robber, Jedidiah Wyatt. They discover that Alta had a baby. No one knows what became of the baby, or any of the old Wyatts, but legend has it that the bank’s stolen gold may be hidden deep inside the mansion. Crank up this mystery episode to eavesdrop on the case and an ever-expanding list of suspects. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and noveli...
Episode 9: Sneaky Old Lady Detectives – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 10, 2019 19:05 - 16 minutes - 37.1 MBRJ and Veenie stop by the White River Boat and Gun Club for a little R & R only to learn from a disgruntled Sheriff Boots that the mansion is now an official murder scene, off-limits to any future snooping by the pair. “No séance! Go home! Bake cookies!” orders Sheriff Boots. Tune in to find out how our determined old lady detectives deal with the local law’s misguided attempts to meddle in the town’s mounting mysteries. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as PI...
Episode 8: High Crimes in Knobby Waters – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 10, 2019 18:57 - 14 minutes - 32.1 MBQueet, the town librarian, provides a genealogy on Jedidiah Wyatt, the haunted mansion owner. She confirms he disappeared more than a century ago after robbing the bank and knocking up a wealthy young town girl, Alta Iona Ollis. Click-in to learn the probable identity of the restless ghost along with the skinny on a host of probable other crimes once committed at the ramshackle mansion. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as PI Ruby Jane Waskom (and everybody el...
Episode 7: Ghost Whisperer – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 10, 2019 18:53 - 16 minutes - 36.9 MBEvery hillbilly crackpot in Pawpaw County calls to report theories about the mansion and its ghosts, keeping the detective agency buzzing. Kandy, a flashy fortune teller, arrives and offers her services as a medium. Listen up to learn how Harry, owner of the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency and womanizing boss, gets sucked in by Kandy’s charm. Laugh along as our spunky detectives get sucked deeper into ghostly chaos. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as PI R...
Episode 6: Ghosts and Gossip – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 10, 2019 18:47 - 11 minutes - 26.5 MBThe Pawpaw County online gossip site, the Hoosier Squealer, spins a lurid tale about the mansion and its ghosts. Veenie’s grown son, Fergie Junior, an unemployed musician who lives in her basement between the canned goods and the Christmas decorations, scoffs at the idea of ghosts. The Squealer puts out the word that anyone knowing about the mansion and the bones found there should contact the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency ASAP. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and noveli...
Episode 5: Emergency Pie - Ghost Busting Mystery
November 07, 2019 23:11 - 11 minutes - 25.6 MBWeak as kittens, and addled from their time at the spooky mansion, RJ and Veenie stop at Ma and Peepaw Horton’s emergency pie shed for fortification, and a bit of local gossip. Ma tells the story of Jedidiah Wyatt, the mansion owner, a banker who robbed Knobby Waters and fled with a fortune more than a century ago. Eavesdrop on this episode of Daisy Pettles' Shady Hoosier Detective Agency to learn why Ma urges our senior detectives to consult Queet, the town librarian. Narration: Layce Gard...
Episode 4 – Cops, Coroners, Bag of Bones – Ghost Busting Mystery
November 07, 2019 20:54 - 13 minutes - 30.7 MBAs RJ and Veenie describe their eerie findings inside the haunted mansion, Devon, the junior sheriff arrives. The law doesn't believe our intrepid old lady detectives as they describe what they saw in the mansion, but that doesn’t daunt them. April the coroner arrives and bags bones and evidence for a crime analysis. Excited by their finds, Veenie decides the detective agency should arrange for a séance to call out the spirits. Click in on this episode of Ghost Busting Mystery to learn about...
Episode 3: Mystery in the Old Mansion - Ghost Busting Mystery
November 07, 2019 19:30 - 20 minutes - 47.4 MBVeenie and RJ scramble around Dode’s apple orchard in search of ghosts. Entering the abandoned Wyatt mansion, they encounter several eerie surprises that send them quickly scuttling for safety. Hearing the commotion, Dode, the addled farmer, calls for emergency backup from the Pawpaw County sheriff’s office. Tune in to this episode of the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency to hear what mysteries lurk in the old Wyatt mansion. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as P...
Episode 2: Ghost Hunters Gear Up - Ghost Busting Mystery
November 07, 2019 19:05 - 15 minutes - 35.9 MBHarry Shades, owner of the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency, grouses about RJ and Veenie’s peculiar ghost-busting case. Ignoring their incompetent boss (per usual), our senior snoops, flat broke, and desperate for any kind of excitement in Pawpaw County, deposit Dode’s retainer. The gang prepares to stir up some spirits. Narration: Layce Gardner, award-winning playwright and novelist, as PI Ruby Jane Waskom (and everybody else too). Sound Bytes: Zapsplat Say Howdy to Daisy, and buy your own...
Episode 1: Ghosts with Big Butts? - Ghost Busting Mystery
November 07, 2019 18:37 - 14 minutes - 32.6 MBA pair of snoopy old southern lady detectives, Ruby Jane and Veenie, agree to investigate a pesky ghost—or is it an alien?—who haunts an addled farmer’s orchard in the hills and hollers of Pawpaw County. Dode, the ghost-plagued farmer, offers to pay them with some mighty peculiar cash. Listen in and laugh along with Episode 1 of the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency, Book 1, Ghost Busting Mystery, an award-winning, cozy mystery, southern crime comedy by Daisy Pettles. Narration: Layce Gardner,...