Ask Answergirl is unique eleven-part collaborative audio drama experience created by Central Michigan University College of the Arts and Media faculty and students. Each episode contains a mini-mystery designed to invite listeners to use their ears – and their brains – to solve the case before Zina.  But don’t lose sight of the forest for the trees and miss the far bigger mystery bubbling beneath the surface of the bucolic CPSU campus. Appropriate for listeners of all ages.

IN THIS EPISODE: Meet Zina Roberts, a college sophomore who has an advice column in the college newspaper. She also moonlights as Compass Point State University’s secret weapon in bringing campus cheaters to justice. But she needs to keep that on the down low, because “snitches get stitches at CPSU.” In this, our pilot episode, Zina is called upon to figure out who is selling copies of a class exam. Can she do it given the time she has? Moreover, can you solve the case before she does? EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, WILL ANDERSON

HARRY STRANGE 209: SAFE HAVEN (MYSTERY) “Magic and magical people – the ‘unnatural order’ is all around us. There are white witches, black witches, demons, vamps, werewolves, shape shifters, ghosts; it’s a protoplasmic party of creature features out there. But unless you know where to look, you won’t find them. I know where to look. My name is Harry Strange.”

HARRY STRANGE 208: HELL ON HEELS (MYSTERY) “Magic and magical people – the ‘unnatural order’ is all around us. There are white witches, black witches, demons, vamps, werewolves, shape shifters, ghosts; it’s a protoplasmic party of creature features out there. But unless you know where to look, you won’t find them. I know where to look. My name is Harry Strange.”

HARRY STRANGE 207: STONE BABIES (MYSTERY) “Magic and magical people – the ‘unnatural order’ is all around us. There are white witches, black witches, demons, vamps, werewolves, shape shifters, ghosts; it’s a protoplasmic party of creature features out there. But unless you know where to look, you won’t find them. I know where to look. My name is Harry Strange.”

HARRY STRANGE 206: TICK TICK BOOM (MYSTERY) “Magic and magical people – the ‘unnatural order’ is all around us. There are white witches, black witches, demons, vamps, werewolves, shape shifters, ghosts; it’s a protoplasmic party of creature features out there. But unless you know where to look, you won’t find them. I know where to look. My name is Harry Strange.”

HARRY STRANGE 205: BASES LOADED TWO MEN OUT (MYSTERY) “Magic and magical people – the ‘unnatural order’ is all around us. There are white witches, black witches, demons, vamps, werewolves, shape shifters, ghosts; it’s a protoplasmic party of creature features out there. But unless you know where to look, you won’t find them. I know where to look. My name is Harry Strange.”

HARRY STRANGE 204: A TRANSITIONAL PLACE (MYSTERY) “Magic and magical people – the ‘unnatural order’ is all around us. There are white witches, black witches, demons, vamps, werewolves, shape shifters, ghosts; it’s a protoplasmic party of creature features out there. But unless you know where to look, you won’t find them. I know where to look. My name is Harry Strange.”

HARRY STRANGE 203: YOU MAY FEEL A LITTLE TINGLE (MYSTERY) “Magic and magical people – the ‘unnatural order’ is all around us. There are white witches, black witches, demons, vamps, werewolves, shape shifters, ghosts; it’s a protoplasmic party of creature features out there. But unless you know where to look, you won’t find them. I know where to look. My name is Harry Strange.”

HARRY STRANGE 202: MR. MOJO RISING (MYSTERY) “Magic and magical people – the ‘unnatural order’ is all around us. There are white witches, black witches, demons, vamps, werewolves, shape shifters, ghosts; it’s a protoplasmic party of creature features out there. But unless you know where to look, you won’t find them. I know where to look. My name is Harry Strange.”

HARRY STRANGE 201: SIX MONTHS LATER (MYSTERY) “Magic and magical people – the ‘unnatural order’ is all around us. There are white witches, black witches, demons, vamps, werewolves, shape shifters, ghosts; it’s a protoplasmic party of creature features out there. But unless you know where to look, you won’t find them. I know where to look. My name is Harry Strange.”

THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (MYSTERY) Adapted from the Classic short story by Richard Connell.

 ELECTRIC VICUNA PRODUCTIONS

MURDER ON SANTA CLAUS LANE (MYSTERY) Adapted from a pulp-fiction story by William G. Bogart which first appeared in "G-Men Detective" magazine, our story is set in 1943 Hollywood, around Christmastime. This production was adapted, produced and directed by Pete Lutz. Enjoy, and Happy Holidays from the NARADA RADIO COMPANY.

GHOST LANTERNS (MYSTERY) A nautical tale that focuses on seven men on a schooner becalmed for three days off the coast of Brazil, out of sight of land. Men from the crew start disappearing at night. There is no sign of what happens to them, and no one is awakened by any sounds of struggle – the men are just discovered as gone the next morning. From a story by Alan B. LeMay. NARADA RADIO COMPANY

THE SHADOW: THE SHADOW’S LEGACY (MYSTERY) An original story written by Pete Lutz as homage to the original Shadow Radio Series, based on characters appearing in those programs. Narada Radio Company

THE SHADOW: A TRIP TO ETERNITY (MYSTERY) An original story written by Scott Leslie as homage to the original Shadow Radio Series, based on characters appearing in those programs. Narada Radio Company

HOME FIRES (MYSTERY) A little lost lamb in the big, bad city is hardly a new theme for our intrepid investigators. But with a couple of hundred pounds of strapping small-town lawman distracting the heck out of the Girl Detective, it looks like it's down to Ol' Square-Jaw to keep the ‘Home Fires’ burning. Decoder Ring Theatre

MIAMI IMPULSE (MYSTERY) “Miami Impulse” is an original story by producer-director, Pete Lutz, written for the series in August 2015. Set in 1959 Chicago and Miami, just before the Cuban Revolution, "Miami Impulse" is a tale of one man's adventure, involving the theft of both another man's identity and $150,000 in drug money. Intrigue and encounters with a beautiful Cubaña lead our man down unfamiliar paths. Will he survive? Listen and find out! Narada Radio Company

TIGER CAT (MYSTERY) An all-new production from 63audio, “Tiger Cat” is a strange tale of revenge and murder. Adapted from a pulp-fiction story by David H. Keller, first published in a 1937 issue of "Weird Tales" magazine. Adapted, produced and directed by Pete Lutz. Narada Radio Company 

THE EMPTY DESK (MYSTERY) They say that familiarity breeds contempt, and history suggests that's pretty true. But what about a Girl Detective on her own in the big, bad city? What's the end result of that equation? When Trixie Dixon is ready to find out she can always ask The Empty Desk. Decoder Ring Theatre

THE LATE MR. JUSTICE (MYSTERY) Really, if you think about it, we are all just waiting to die. From the moment of birth, in a perpetual holding pattern to shuffle off this mortal coil sooner or later. Most of the time it doesn't bear thinking about. But then the wait suddenly becomes a whole lot less theoretical than it used to be. Decoder Ring Theatre

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE (MYSTERY) There are certain immutable laws that govern the universe, and to put them to the test is a waste of time. To employ the firm of Justice and Dixon to do so on your behalf will cost you the sum of $39.99 a day and leave you sadder, but wiser, than you were when you came in the door. Decoder Ring Theatre 

THOSE WHO WAIT (MYSTERY) It is said by some that good things come to those who wait. It’s an interesting idea, and like most interesting ideas, it’s sufficiently vague as to be effectively meaningless. We all wait, therefore we each see ourselves as the potential recipient of the aforementioned good things. And we find this good, so the adage becomes a truism. Thing is, as comforting as it is, it ain’t quite true. Decoder Ring Theatre

THE PERFECT PIGEON (MYSTERY) A classic style caper, chock-a-block with art theft, swindling and romance! Written by Julie Hoverson. 19 Nocturne Boulevard

TWO IS TOO MANY (MYSTERY) They say that you can have too much of a good thing, my friends, and that is certainly true. There are few things in the world so wonderful that custom cannot stale their infinite variety. And when it comes to the subject of Hawthornes... well, perhaps Two Is Too Many! Decoder Ring Theatre

JAWBONE OF AN ASP (MYSTERY) The unpredictable life of a private detective is a fine thing. But like all good things, it is at least partly an illusion. There are only so many reasons that a person knocks on the grey-green door that reads “Justice and Dixon, Private Investigations”, and they usually fall within a fairly limited range. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule. Decoder Ring Theatre