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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 Raúl Gutierrez was the son of Ezmeralda's brother, Ignacio, and had recently been domiciled chez Barnes under mysterious circumstances.

Raúl, for reasons which would become apparent, had denied guilt but had been otherwise uncooperative.

Naturally, Gabriel Bergeron had set out to discover the truth...selflessly, valiantly, and without regard for danger to life and limb.



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