S21 Ep62: M*rder By Design w/ Lee Goldberg
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
True Crime Tuesday presents: Murder By Design with Screenwriter/Producer/New York Times Best Selling Author, Lee Goldberg!
Edison Bixby is wealthy, handsome, and, due to a traumatic brain injury, impulsively rude. He’s also a brilliant insurance investigator who solves baffling crimes by figuring out how the design of the man-made world around us makes them possible. Enter Wally Nash: a struggling actor hired to keep Bixby from offending everyone he meets.
Their first case together looks like a simple accident. Caroline Crowley took a nasty fall down a staircase at a shopping mall in front of dozens of witnesses. Video clearly shows the deadly misstep. But Bixby is certain she was murdered by design, subtly manipulated into causing her own demise. The mall itself made the crime intentional, if not inevitable.
Now Bixby must prove his outrageous theory before a very cunning killer gets others on his hit list to murder themselves, too.
On Today's TCT, we talk with Lee Goldberg about the unusual quirks that make up his lead character of Edison Bixby, his unique relationship with his struggling actor assistant,Wally Nash, and his even more unusual working and personal relationship with Detective Bridget McGregor! We also examine how Edison makes his living now, what case pulls everyone together, and the unusual plot device that separates this story from every other "whodunnit"!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the best in true crime podcasting. |
| 0:25.0 | This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:27.1 | Got a great show ahead today, folks. |
| 0:28.7 | Jessica Freeberg's in with dumb crime, stupid criminals, just a bit. |
| 0:31.6 | But first, I had the privilege of reading this wonderful book right here. |
| 0:36.4 | I've got to be able to hold it up steady first. |
| 0:38.7 | This is Lee Goldberg's latest called Murder by Design. And it is not only a great thriller |
| 0:45.2 | and a wonderful fictional thriller that we'll be talking about today, it's got a great sense of |
| 0:49.8 | humor. And I love a book with a great sense of humor. It's got everything in it. |
| 0:55.0 | It's got murder. |
| 0:56.0 | It's got solving crimes. |
| 0:57.0 | It's got a great lead character in Edison Bixby. |
| 1:00.0 | We'll talk more about that in just a minute. |
| 1:02.0 | But first, I want to tell you a little bit about Lee. |
| 1:05.0 | Lee is a two-time Edgar Award and two-time Seamus Award finalist, |
| 1:09.0 | number one New York Times best-selling author |
| 1:12.0 | with more than 60 novels, |
| 1:14.5 | including the Eve Ronan series, |
| 1:16.8 | the Ian Ludlow series, and the |
| 1:18.5 | Sharp Walker |
| 1:20.6 | series, and five books and two |
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