Abagail Branagan Investigates chapter 12

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Gregg Taylor

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🗓️ 7 September 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

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 12, in which fences are mended. Read by Clarissa Dernederlanden, written by Gregg Taylor

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0:00.0	Chapter 12.
0:02.1	Karen Hightower looked up from Abigail's notes.
0:07.0	I'm suspicious about this cat lady, she said.
0:11.5	Abigail frowned.
0:13.0	Why do you say that? she asked.
0:15.5	Because!
0:17.3	Karen struggled for an explanation.
0:20.0	Who has that many cats, anyway?
0:23.9	Abigail nodded, but she was quietly displeased.
0:27.3	Her notes were a very thorough retelling of the previous day's events,
0:31.4	apart from the encounter with Krasowski's tribe of savages
0:34.0	and her parting with Timothy,
0:36.4	none of which seemed relevant.
0:38.5	Miss Hightower, she began.
0:40.7	The cat lady made a number of interesting points, and, having visited the area myself,
0:46.4	I can see why the ravine would be exciting for an adventurous cat like Ezekiel.
0:52.6	"'I think that she was trying to distract you,' the girl said, frowning at her detective.
0:58.4	"'If she was,' Abigail said, she failed spectacularly.
1:03.2	The original search area has been thoroughly checked, as you can see.
1:07.5	But I can't imagine why she would do that.
1:10.5	"'To send you on a wild goose chase,
1:13.6	Karen said Crossley, to have you run all over town when Ezekiel is right there in her house.
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