In our latest foray into Idaville based petty crime, Mike will not be alone in his attempt to solve a mystery. He’ll also have to compete with legendary ne’er-do-well Bugs Meany, who has started his own detective agency to compete with Bad Bad Leroy.

This episode features one of the more legendary solutions we’ve encountered in the run of the podcast, so you’ll definitely want to listen because this one absolutely would not hold up in a court of law.

Let’s start by confessing that, yes; The Legend of Rah & the Muggles is obviously a children’s book. I mean, the nuclear holocaust on page one. The small, deformed, hairless creatures getting dragged away by terrifying rodents. Giant horse ants. Fruit worms. This is kid stuff.

Still! That does not deter Mike nor Conor from doing their sacred duty to talk at length about Uncle Fred, a character mentioned once in a poem!

For next time: finish the damn book!

Witness Intimidation is all the rage in Idaville, as Mike tries to solve the most insanely diabolical “mystery” the boy detective and your hosts have encountered so far. Sobol, you monster!

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Strange, hairless beings. Weird animals. Aquatic creatures. Caretakers caked with their own filth. And these are just the people making this podcast. Now throw in, by far, the oddest musical score ever conceived by the human mind, and you have the first episode of The Legend of Rah and the Muggles (formerly “Rah.” Before the lawsuits….)

Link to the Soundcloud gallery of Mugglebyes

ASSIGNMENT: Read thru Chapter 8

WOW! Mentions of Garrett P. Serviss, the phrase “a lick and a promise”, balloon clowns, kidnapping and Reverends. Also, find out if Mike improves on his .500 record of solving E. Brown mysteries.

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In this episode we’ll cover the wild backstory of our 32nd book “The Legend of Rah and the Muggles”. You may have heard about the 2001 lawsuit regarding this and the author’s other books about “Larry Potter” but trust us, the details are wilder than you can imagine.

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Assignment: Read thru Chapter Four.

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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!

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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??

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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