Mystery On The Rocks

October, 1944. A wealthy oil heiress who is nevertheless trying to make her own way in Hollywood is found murdered, face down in her overflowing bathtub. Defensive wounds suggest she put up a hell of a fight yet the apartment shows no signs of a struggle. Further clues point to a premeditated killing and the case throws up several suspects yet none of them could have possibly done it... So who did?At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question ha

In September 1943, a car careens out of control on a busy boulevard before coming to an abrupt stop in an adjacent field. The driver, wearing only swimming trunks, staggers out calling for help with a fatal stab wound in his back. There's blood all over the car interior but no evidence that anyone was in the car with him. And the murder weapon is nowhere to be seen... The victim? Actor David Bacon, star of 'The Masked Marvel'...At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodun

Through the night of February 24th 1942, LA was plunged into a blackout as American forces at the beginning of their war effort defended the county from an enemy attack. However, it became apparent the following morning that there had been no enemy and no attack. Any damage sustained had been from the American troops themselves, so what were they firing at?At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, C

Not every movie star was able to make the transition from silent film to the 'talkies' but phenomenal actress Thelma Todd was one of the few who could. Comedy, drama, thriller - she could do anything, with a long and glittering career ahead of her... Until she is found dead at the age of 29 in the garage of her married lover.At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz

1924, a party to celebrate the birthday of revolutionary movie producer Thomas H Ince takes place aboard the luxury yacht of pioneering media mogul William Randolph Hearst. A day later, Ince is dead. But what really happened has been subject to speculation for nearly 100 years...At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and plays live piano – and everyone

While last week's case was still ongoing, prominent film director William Desmond Taylor was found shot in the back in his Hollywood home. A litany of suspects and a heavily contaminated crime scene mean this mystery has remained unsolved for nearly 100 years. So who did it...?At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and plays live piano – and everyone chats a

Hello listener, and welcome to something a little different...  Join us for the first in a mini series where Mystery on the Rocks Do Hollywood! Murders, mysteries and intrigue from the Golden Age of movie stars and Hollywood's seedy underbelly... And to kick things off - in 1921, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle was tried THREE TIMES for the murder of actress Virginia Rappe.  But what really happened...?At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF hap

A blind architect found bludgeoned in an empty mansion... £12 million of missing gold bars... The search for Camelot... And an ubercool guest as musician, YouTuber and LGBT activist Katy Montgomerie joins us to help piece it all together. Katy is a leading force in trans activism and works tirelessly to make the world a better place for everyone. You can also hear her as guitarist and bassist in thrash metal band Dehumanaut, whose debut album is available now...At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and

Beaming all the way over the Atlantic is fantastic writer and comedian Mike Balazo. Winning the Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Variety of Sketch Comedy Programme just hasn't been quite enough for Mike so he swung by our humble bar to help us out with the ghoulish Sherman Murders...At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and plays live piano – and

Joining us for some lockdown-eased larks this week is comedy producer and director extraordinaire Saima Ferdows! As well as racking up credits impressive credits on Channel 4 and ITV, Saima is part of a new creative generation actively seeking to uncover and promote BAME talent. She joined us for a natter about an enduring case - just what happened to pilot Peter Gibbs...At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud make

In an unprecedented turn of events, our guest this week just... Never showed up. But we recorded the ensuing chat regardless! Plus, a former guest messaged with a burning question, a listener emailed in and probably FOR REAL solved a previous case, Sooz went rogue and invented another new cocktail and we all had a lot of fun pretending our missing guest was meant to be Dominic Cummings, the government adviser at the centre of a breaking new story which will date this episode horrendously... Enjoy!At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved myster

We've put on our best clothes and gone all serious (of course not) as we are now bona fide political interviewers... We're joined this week by former Member of Parliament Danielle Rowley. Danielle served as Labour MP for Midlothian from 2017 to 2019 and was Shadow Minister for Climate Justice and Green Jobs and she joins us to go over the mysterious disappearance of a firebrand socialist politician in the early 20th Century...At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunni

Responsibly distancing herself from everyone else in the bar this week is one-liner comedian extraordinaire Adele Cliff. Adele's jokes have featured in Dave's Best Jokes of the Fringe every year since 2016 and she is the UK Pun Champion of 2020. With such a forensic mind when it comes to words, can she help the gang solve the grisly Icebox Murders?At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tell

Joining us in lockdown this week is comedian, singer, actor and dancer Charlie Baker! Charlie has turned his hand to most things and excelled at all of them, from musicals to stand-up and even to an appearance in Doctor Who! He currently hosts his own radio show on TalkSport and graced our bar to help us with a mystery right from the very heartland of his home county... The Devil's Footprints...After a heavy snowfall in February 1855, Devon locals were perplexed to discover a strange single trail of hoof-like footprints that were said to cover a total distance of anything between 40 and 100 miles, with buildings and walls apparently no obstacle for whatever left them...At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s

Popping into the bar today is phenomenally funny comedian Carl Donnelly. Carl is also a bona fide podcasting legend having hosted 'The Carl Donnelly & Chris Martin Podcast' and 'Babysitting Trevor' and currently hosting the amazing 'Two Vegan Idiots' with Julian Deane. And he brings a slight change of format this week as the gang recount an already solved mystery.  But the story was just too good not to share...At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit

Popping into the bar during his daily outdoor exercise allowance is the hilarious comedian and professional poker player Ken Cheng. As well as his own series on BBC Radio 4, you might have heard and seen Ken in all manner of comedy shows such as The Now Show, Ladhood and Harry Hill's Tea Time among many others. He applies his formidable mathematical brain in helping the gang crack the case of The Gatton Murders...At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happ

Another week in lockdown sees ace comedian, former Butlins Redcoat and avowed Columbo superfan Suzy Bennett beam into the bar with a proper posh cocktail of her own to help the gang with possibly their toughest case yet - the real life murder of a Columbo guest star with pretty much zero clues...At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and plays live piano – a

Joining us at the bar during lockdown (without breaking any rules don't call the police please thanks) this week is award-winning alternative comic, screenwriter and actor - the fabulous Joz Norris! Joz has performed extensively on the comedy and short film festival circuits as both himself and his hilariously surreal alter-ego Mr Fruit Salad. If we sound a little different this week that's because we are all beaming into the bar virtually because of current lockdown rules, which also means that we all now have to make our own drinks. We've never appreciated Masud more!At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktai

Nipping in for a swift one this week is real life ghost hunter and Ghost Busters fanatic, Paul Gannon! Paul has been writing, producing and performing comedy and radio shows for 10 years. He is the host and producer of the economy comedy podcast Cheap Show and creator of The Geekatorium, the pop culture comedy podcast.At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings a

Come to quench her thirst this week is Heidi Regan! Heidi is an award-winning Australian writer and stand up comedian. She co-hosts the BBC podcast Grown Up Land as well as her own podcast, A Thin Layer of Film, for RadioX. She has written and performed for Channel 4, the BBC and The Seven Network for Australia.At the Mystery on the Rocks bar you’ll find a retired sleuth, the bartender trying to settle his tab, and the down-on-her-luck lounge singer, solving mysteries and drinking cocktails. Each week a new guest enters the bar and attempts to solve an unsolved mystery alongside the regulars. Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner. It’s a high concept comedy and true crime podcast, set in a fictional crime-solving bar (with real cocktails!). The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. Masud makes the drinks, Chris tells the mystery and Sooz sings and play