Thanks to everyone who supported the podcast on Patreon in 2024. Hear all 30+ 280 Mysteries, get every new 372 a week early, and other fun stuff if you join us there in 2025! patreon.com/372pages

Mike did pretty well in his first attempt to solve an Encyclopedia Brown mystery. But will he be able to match wits with Idaville’s most famous boy detective and crack The Case of Merko’s Grandson? Take a listen and find out!

Thanks to everyone who supported the podcast on Patreon this year. Don’t miss out on getting every new episode early plus all the other fun stuff we have planned for 2025! https://patreon.com/372pages

Ahhh, coziness. Licorice. The sound of ice cream being slopped down while kidnap victims await their fate. Long arms being deftly handled by possibly-retired FBI agents. Birdhouses being made in old, decrepit shoe stores. English paper piecing being done in front of gasping crowds. Reincarnated cat-husbands sneering at your life choice – OH, OH! And gangland murder!!

Yes, we reluctantly bid ahoy to The Quilting Cruise, to Miranda Downing née Hathaway, and yet somehow Mike still has to do Real or Fanfic! How WE ask you, is that possible, this being the last reading of this book?

How?

Over on the 372 Patreon, which you should join now, we’ve been doing an entire second podcast for a year and a half now called 280 Mysteries We’ll Never Get Back where we explore the insane world of Idaville and it’s world famous boy detective Encyclopedia Brown. We challenge each other, as well as hilarious guests, to solve the oftentimes impossible mysteries!

In this first episode, Conor challenges Mike to solve The Case of The Glass of Ginger Ale. Will he have any luck cracking it??

This was originally posted on our Patreon. If you like them, we’ve got a whole bunch more if you sign up! https://patreon.com/372pages

Support the podcast on Patreon where you get every episode a week early and lots of other fun stuff: https://patreon.com/372pages

Get the book here https://amzn.to/41qteP7

Redwork is finally explained. As are blackwork, bluework and greenwork. Also (drool alert!) cruise ship food is repeatedly mentioned. I’ve also heard that The Captain’s Dinner happens. And for those of you champing at the bit, YES, Conor recruits the fine men and women who do their great work on the Dark Web.

Plus, there’s Mail and Dumb Sentences!

Gallery of images discussed in the episode including many beautiful quilts from our listeners: https://imgur.com/a/quilters-cruise-ep-2-pictures-55N7cXK

Support the podcast on Patreon and get to hear all the stuff we talk about on here that isn’t available anywhere else, plus get every episode a week early! patreon.com/372pages

Get the book here (we may earn a commission from this link)

Mike and Conor are back in the CozQuiltPlasVerse (still haven’t fully shaken the last book…) You know what that means: Longarms are mastered by devastatingly handsome ex-law enforcement agents. Jeopardy is watched while things happen. Character names fly at you like fake snowflakes on the set of Hot Frosty.

Plus, Mike and Conor go head-to-head in Real or FanFic, we read some mail and we go through the Dumb Sentences of the Week.

Assignment: Read thru Chapter 17

It’s cozy season! It’s cruise season! Wait, can it be BOTH??

Get the book here https://amzn.to/4fzHWa1 (affiliate link)

If you supported the podcast on Patreon you’d have already been cozy for a week because we post every episode there a week early! Plus we have another ENTIRE PODCAST on there where we try to solve old Encyclopedia Brown mysteries, sometimes with special guests! https://patreon.com/372pages

Jonathan’s song: 372pages.com/recapsong.mp3 and all the images we discuss in this episode: https://imgur.com/a/RjzYnWN

ASSIGNMENT: Read thru Chapter 9

Support the podcast on Patreon where you can hear our latest attempts to solve insane Encyclopedia Brown mysteries with special guests Alex Schmidt, John Hodgman, and David Roth! https://patreon.com/372pages

Finally, the most pressing questions are answered: who is Mrs. Juneanne Stackpoole? Will Anselmo be as big a character as we always assumed? What’s the latest from the Thelwell Brokerage Services?!

Oh, also, though it doesn’t matter or count in the least, the Real of FanFic, Mike v. Conor is tallied.

Plus some listener mail and Dumb Sentences of the Week.

Support the podcast on Patreon, where you get every episode early as well as all the other fun stuff we talk about on these eps! https://patreon.com/372pages

We have what you all crave: tantalizing new facts about Sid. Also, without noting it we meet what we have to imagine is the 750th character in this relatively short book.

Dumb Sentences join our final Real or FanFic of this book, and, at long last, the full clip that should put to rest the eternal question, “Who is Jim Dalen?”

Support the podcast on Patreon. Special guest have started joining us for 280 Mysteries! https://patreon.com/372pages

We’ve kept you waiting long enough: time to find out the moisture level of Sid’s facial hair and to name the implement or implements he uses to groom it. Also, our experimental Real or FanFic continues to go swimmingly / terribly, depending on whether you’re Team Conor or Team Mike.

ASSIGNMENT: Read thru Chapter 31

Support the podcast on Patreon so you can hear our recap of the previous 7 books in the series, Encyclopedia Brown mysteries, and all the other stuff we talk about in this episode! http://patreon.com/372pages

So many characters! Why?

Ok, we’ve calmed down now. We’re back in the Tek-verse. We’re happy, I wouldn’t hesitate to say, to be here.

Get the book here.

READING ASSIGNMENT: Read through Chap. 21