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 Aunt Flo's Victorian Aunt Flo's Victorian home, sitting on the banks of the Pocomoke River near Snow Hill, Maryland, is one of the major settings of the Gabe Bergeron mystery books. The inspiration for this fictional structure was the parsonage of Immanuel Methodist Church in Crisfield, Maryland. The parsonage itself was torn down in 1973 and lives on in a few photos and antique postcards. The home was introduced in Book #1, "Death on Daugherty Creek" “ Great-aunt Flo lived in an old Victorian pile on the banks of the Pocomoke River. There was a cypress swamp nearby, and Neal loved everything about the river and the swamp. He'd had his doubts. It had seemed like another world when he'd first come to live with her. The gate was closed so he couldn't drive up to the house. The air was motionless, thick and oppressive with heat and humidity and mosquitoes. The river was flowing languidly without a ripple on its surface. A foursome of young ...
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  New Gabe Mystery!  Aunt Flo's Gold Lincoln First of a series of short stories. Read it for free: Friday through Sunday, 3/12, 3/13 & 3/14 So Cory and Matt Bornheimer, Cory's FBI partner, had expressed an interest in his first case...his first case involving the forces of law and order. He had cast his mind back to his student days...not really that long ago at all...and recalled a spot of grand theft auto. The prize possession of his great-aunt Florence Barnes had been a gold, 1978 Lincoln Continental Town Car with amber colored, suede seats. Enough steel to construct a pocket battleship had been used in its forging, and it burned gasoline like a camel slurped water at the only oasis for a thousand miles. But this very solid object had vanished one summer afternoon. Suspicion had fallen on Gabriel Bergeron almost immediately, but he had been blameless as he usually was. And then Aunt Flo and Ezmeralda had focused their stony gazes upon Raúl . Teenage...