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The Spoils Before Dying

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Eric Jonrosh's The Spoils Before Dying

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Get your jazz hands ready, because Jonrosh's story takes viewers into the seedy underbelly of the 1950s jazz scene, in a detective story positively buzzing with erotic charge and a murder investigation that spins out of control.

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Season 16 episodes · 2015
  1. Episode 1 · 9 Jul 2015 · 01:00 · 30 min

    Murder in B Flat

    In this never-before seen filmitization of Eric Jonrosh's best-selling novel The Spoils Before Dying, jazz musician Rock Banyon is accused of the murder of his former lover, Fresno Foxglove. The police give Rock two (maybe three) days to solve the murder, and he skips town and heads to Actual Mexico City... where he meets another old lover, Delores DeWinter.

  2. Episode 2 · 9 Jul 2015 · 01:30 · 30 min

    Blues for Barnaby

    Rock links up with Delores in Actual Mexico City, but Delores delivers a cryptic warning. The musician eventually heads back to LA to try and get a lead on Stymagian, and has chocolate-banana cake with the police.

  3. Episode 3 · 10 Jul 2015 · 01:00 · 30 min

    That's Jazz

    After Rock freaks out on The Artie Mann Show, he discovers that Fresno's sax player has turned up dead. However, he's holding the wrong sax, and Rock figures that it's the key to the mystery of who killed Fresno.

  4. Episode 4 · 10 Jul 2015 · 01:30 · 30 min

    Fear Steps In

    After a helicopter gunman takes out Kenton, Rock goes to Stymagian's house in the hills and meets the scientist's daughter.

  5. Episode 5 · 11 Jul 2015 · 01:00 · 30 min

    The Trip Trap

    After surviving Caligarious' attempt to kill him and make it look like a drug overdose, Rock uses a clever pants analogy to convince Chip and Kermit to let him go. Everything becomes clear, but can Rock track down the killer in time?

  6. Episode 6 · 11 Jul 2015 · 01:30 · 30 min

    The Biscuit Eaters

    Rock confronts the man behind Fresno's murder and is forced to decide whether he'll live free as a jazz musician... and die the same way.

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