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Decoder Ring Theatre

Abagail Branagan Investigates chapter 14

Decoder Ring Theatre

Gregg Taylor

Audio, Kids & Family, Comedy, Mystery, Full, Book, Comic, Cast, Comics, Adventure, Radio, Drama, Superhero, Fiction, Stories For Kids, Otr, Thriller, Play, Theatre, Pulp, Detective, Theater

4.8661 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2019

⏱️ 8 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 14, in which the suspects are gathered in the library, but not really. Read by Clarissa Dernederlanden, written by Gregg Taylor

Transcript

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0:00.0

Chapter 14

0:01.7

It was nearly two and a half hours before Karen Hightower and her mother arrived, and a lot

0:09.3

had happened in the meantime.

0:11.5

The entire yard where the clubhouse stood was teeming with people, and Karen seemed

0:16.5

confused for a minute, until she saw Abigail waving, and she opened the back door of the car

0:22.7

and pulled out a carrying cage, which her mother stepped in to take from her.

0:28.0

Detective Brannigan, Karen said excitedly, this is my mother.

0:33.6

Pleased to meet you, ma'am, Abigail said, holding out her hand. "'The woman seemed unsure of all of this, but she shook Abigail's hand.

0:43.2

"'Nice to meet you, too, Detective Brannigan,' she said.

0:49.1

"'Abegale is fine,' Abigail said.

0:51.8

"'Are you Jill Br Branigan's daughter?

0:55.3

Mrs. Hightower asked.

0:57.1

You look just like her.

0:59.6

Thank you, ma'am, Abigail said, meaning it.

1:03.4

Are you sure that it's Ezekiel?

1:05.8

Karen asked excitedly.

1:08.0

Yes, Abigail replied with a smile.

1:10.7

This way.

1:12.4

Who are all of these people? Mrs. Hightower asked. Some of them are the Brighton Cat

1:18.7

Rescue, Abigail replied, and others are the families of the boys who were looking after the cats.

1:24.4

Cats? Mrs. Hightower asked, surprised. Yes, ma'am, Abigail nodded. We were looking for one cat,

1:32.0

and we found eight. She explained the situation and what Ezekiel had been up to all this while,

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