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🗓️ 27 July 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Spend your summer vacation with a middle-grade mystery sure to delight detectives of all ages.
Abagail Branagan is sure that something is rotten on Beechnut Street. Now if only she can get a chance to prove it.
Has she really lived her whole life in the most boring place on Earth? Is it just the pile of her dad’s old mystery books that has made her dead certain that there are a million stories in the naked suburbs, just waiting for a tough-as-nails investigator like her? Stay tuned and find out!
This week: Chapter 6, in which suspicious characters are suspected. Read by Clarissa Dernederlanden, written by Gregg Taylor
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0:00.0 | Chapter 6. |
0:02.7 | Abigail was so startled that she forgot to say that it was not her cat, even though she had said that at nearly every house they had checked all day. |
0:09.9 | In fact, for a moment, she said nothing at all, but blinked several times at the girl with a hair. |
0:15.4 | Timothy also said nothing, but those were his standing orders, and Abigail would have likely only noticed if he had done otherwise. |
0:22.8 | The girl with a hair looked to be about Abigail's age. She was nearly as tall as Abigail, |
0:28.4 | and maybe more so if you counted her hair, which Abigail was certain one should not. She looked |
0:34.8 | back and forth between the two investigators, as if baffled that no one was saying anything at all. |
0:41.4 | "'Aren't you the detectives?' the girl with a hair asked. The one's looking for the cat? |
0:46.0 | Abigail was about to say that she was, when the girl with the hair did a small double-take, |
0:50.7 | as if she had just noticed something for the first time. |
0:53.7 | "'Oh, it's you,' she said to Timothy. |
0:56.5 | Timothy cleared his throat awkwardly. |
0:58.9 | He was not really supposed to speak, but in this case it was starting to feel awkward and |
1:03.1 | a little bit rude. |
1:05.0 | "'Yes,' he nodded. |
1:07.0 | "'Abegale, this is Cale. |
1:10.1 | "'Kale, this is Abigail Branigan, of the Beechnut Street Detective Agency.' |
1:15.4 | "'Abel thought that the introduction was properly formal, |
1:18.6 | "'and she presented one of her business cards to go along with it. |
1:22.1 | "'Kale?' she asked. |
1:24.3 | "'Un sure if she had heard correctly. |
1:26.5 | "'Like the leafy green vegetable? |
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