Meet Bonnie Marsden, a forty-five-year-old mother of four who hires herself out as a housekeeper when she loses her job as a loans officer in a small Nova Scotia town. But Bonnie ends up doing much more than housework as mystery, mayhem and murder abound in her home town of Membertou County. Each week brings a startling new case that needs cleaning up: a child with Downs Syndrome is found frozen to death in the woods; Bonnie's son Robbie is accused of vandalism; and the local game warden is found dead in his own kitchen.

So sit back, pour yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy the best of radio drama with eerie disappearances, unusual deaths, gripping plots, spinetingling suspense, and, of course, the smart sleuthing of Bonnie Marsden. The series stars Deborah Allen as Bonnie and a host of other characters, including Richard Donat as Bonnie's husband, Big Ben; Michael Pellerin as RCMP Cpl. Kowalchuk; and George Jordan as local radio announcer Bob Smiley. Music for the series is composed by Scott Macmillan and Dave Maclsaac.

Clean Sweep, a CBC audience favourite, is a full cast mystery series produced and directed in Halifax. It has been broadcast on CBC Radio One's "The Mystery Project," which features one of the most popular and enduring forms of radio, the half-hour detective mystery. It has aired on Saturdays at 6:30 pm ET and on "Richardson's Roundup" on Fridays at 3:30 pm ET. Clean Sweep features episodes one to six from the series' successful first season.

Alf Silver has been a playwright, an actor, and a songwriter, as well as a short-order cook, nude model, and day labourer. He grew up in various places across the Canadian prairies. He now lives with his wife in a farm-house at Ardoise, Nova Scotia, and devotes his time to researching and writing historical novels. Alfred has produced radio plays for the CBC programs Clean Sweep for The Mystery Project, Vanishing Point, Different Drummer, Cranks and Stereo Morning.

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