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New Gabe Bergeron Mystery!   Farmer, Physicist, Bookkeeper, Spy Outside the sun was shining on a June morning; dulcet breezes were sighing; flowers were wasting their sweetness on city air. Inside Gabe Bergeron, CPA, was crunching numbers ceaselessly in his little cubicle. Well, he might be in the breakroom making coffee currently but he was work adjacent.   And then his day, week, and life started to degrade; rapidly and relentlessly. It began with his client Marge Swank showing up at Garst Accounting dressed all in black. With a veil. And this ill-omened raven refused to croak about why she had appeared in his office. Where no Bergeron man had seen her before. And then she vanished. Which was also unprecedented. And unwonted. And unheard of. And the following morning, tall, lean, icy-eyed Monroe, spy, intelligencer, and rogue operative, was standing over his bed and saying, “I need your help.” And Gabe was dragged from his bed...literally...to a crime scene; to D...
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  New Gabe Bergeron Mystery!  Reluctant Sherlock   It was a dark and stormy night. Except it wasn't. Well, it was definitely dark and stormy but it was 9:00 am. And Gabriel Henri Bergeron, CPA, was huddled in the lobby of his apartment building on Arch Street. Lightning and thunder and howling gales and sheets of rain were currently assaulting his building and indeed the entire city of Philadelphia. Which was the reason for the huddling. He sighed. He was supposed to be on vacation for the whole week, but Chase was idling at the curb in his very red, Toyota Tacoma pickup. Waiting for Gabe Bergeron. Chase was most definitely a friend and all around stalwart fellow. And he had found it impossible to refuse when he'd asked for help on a new case. The tumult seemed to be easing just a bit, and he ran for it, leaping into the truck that rode far above the roadway on fat, spiky tires. Chase smiled at him, lighting up the cab of the truck, radiating in all thre...