Art Frat Rejects Write a Murder Mystery

By: Sophia Hotung Huber Rodriguez-Tejada Veronica Grace Taleon
  • Summary

  • Three Columbia University alums take turns writing chapters of a crime novel without planning, conferring, or revising. What ensues is the raucous, riveting, and ridiculous tale of Moletown and the traveling carnival that descends upon its domain one fateful summer.


    When a teenage girl is found dead in her bedroom, a serrated blade through her heart, a studly police officer, adolescent computer science genius, self-proclaimed wine mom, and a slew of other indelible characters are spurred on to uncover a conspiracy that may just shake their Pacific Northwestern hometown to its core.


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Sophia Hotung, Huber Rodriguez-Tejada, Veronica Grace Taleon
    Show more Show less
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2
Episodes
  • Season 1 • Official Trailer
    Mar 20 2021
    Art Frat Rejects Write a Murder Mystery is a weekly story podcast in which three college friends take turns writing chapters of a crime novel. They can't confer, they can't edit, and they can't plan. What ensues is the raucous, riveting, and ridiculous tale of Moletown and the traveling carnival that descends upon its domain one fateful summer. When a teenage girl is found dead in her bedroom, a serrated blade through her heart, a studly police officer, adolescent computer science genius, self-proclaimed wine mom, and a slew of other indelible characters are spurred on to uncover a conspiracy that may just shake their Pacific Northwestern hometown to its core.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Show more Show less
    3 mins
  • S1E1 • Welcome to Moletown (Chapter 1)
    Mar 27 2021

    [SPOILERS] We open on an eerie traveling circus and fairground called Signor Romanzo’s House of Wonders. Signor Romanzo is in his caravan making dinner and he sings a Romanian song his dead mum taught him. He’s preoccupied because the BDSM — Board of the District of Suburban Moletown — is writing angry letters asking that the carnival leave town. A bunch of other carnival people get introduced but we’ll talk about them later. The most important one is Wilhelmina who is a fortune-telling child. We cut to Wendy, the BDSM president. She’s venting to her friend Alicia Allotoza about her husband’s affair and the negative influence of the carnival. They decide to picket the carnival so go to her daughter Clara’s room to get craft tools for signs. They find the teenager stabbed dead. Back at the House of Wonders, Inspector Golphini, a Moletown police officer, and his German shepherd, Elaine try to arrest Signor Romanzo for Clara’s murder. Alas, Signor Romanzo escapes as if by magic.


    Crowbarred contributions (aka ding ding dings):

    • Speech: I saw it coming like a train in the night
    • Phrase: Sweet cinnamon cucumber buns


    Credits

    Performers: Sophia Hotung, Huber Rodriguez-Tejada, Veronica Grace Taleon

    Author: Sophia Hotung

    Theme music: Bubamara by the Bubamara Brass Band

    Intro voiceover: Adam Spencer


    Website • Instagram • Facebook • Twitter • Contact


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Show more Show less
    50 mins
  • S1E2 • Ruby Red (Chapter 2)
    Apr 3 2021

    [SPOILERS] We open on Wilhelmina at her day job as the head of the computer science department at Clairmont University. After leaving work, Signor Romanzo teleports into her car and tells her to look for a red Moleskine journal. Once she gets to the carnival, Inspector Golphini's there to question her, and we learn that they are romantically involved. She can't find the journal among Signor Romanzo’s possessions. Six weeks later (Huber loves a time jump), a woman named Ruby Red suffocates the Chief of Surgery at Moletown Memorial Hospital, Christopher Kandel, and takes a folder labeled “Clara” from his house (as well as his Rolex!) We learn that she and Wilhelmina are in cahoots.


    Crowbarred contributions (aka ding ding dings)

    • Speech: Grab the saltines and prune juice
    • Phrase: Singing fairy lights


    Credits

    Performers: Sophia Hotung, Huber Rodriguez-Tejada, Veronica Grace Taleon

    Author: Huber Rodriguez-Tejada

    Theme music: Bubamara by the Bubamara Brass Band

    Intro voiceover: Adam Spencer


    Website • Instagram • Facebook • Twitter • Contact


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Show more Show less
    22 mins

What listeners say about Art Frat Rejects Write a Murder Mystery

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.