A child I know is going away to French immersion camp. When she was little several of the Berna Gaby books were read to her (in English). I was thinking that if it was possible to get French versions it would be a nice accompanyment for the trip. So, two questions,

1) Does anyone know the French name of Gaby and the New Money Fraud? (See below for the set of four books) This is the one book that I don’t know the French name of.

2) Does anyone know how to acquire in North America these books, but in French?

For the record, here is the set of four books, including 3 out of 4 with the original titles en francaise:

1. A Hundred Million Francs (Le Cheval sans tête), 1955
2. The Street Musician (Le Piano à bretelle), 1956
3. The Mystery of Saint Salgue (La Piste du souvenir), 1962
4. Gaby and the New Money Fraud, 1971

(From Wikipedia)

Thanks very much for any info,

John-in-Toronto-Canada

Pseudonym of Jean Sabran. 1908-1994

Novels as Berna (all for children):

* Threshold of the Stars (1954) (SF)
* Continent in the Sky (1955) (SF)
* Horse Without a Head, the (1955) in UK = The Hundred Million Francs)
* Street Musician, the (1956) just reread — see update in a moment
* Knights of King Midas, the (1958)
* Flood Warning (1960)
* Mystery of Saint-Salgue, the (1962)
* Clue of The Black Cat, the (1963)
* Truckload of Rice, a (1968)
* Secret of the Missing Boat, the (1969)
* They Didn’t Come Back (1969)
* Myna Bird Mystery (1970)
* Gaby and the New Money Fraud (1971)
* Vagabonds Ashore, the (1973)
* Vagabonds of the Pacific (1973)

(bolded = Gaby’s Ten stories)

Sabran also wrote adult tec fiction under his own name — though I can only find a little about it on the net, esp. the promising-sounding HARD BOILED DICKS No.12 — and under the further pseudonyms
Bernard Deleuze (small amount), Paul Gerrard (common english name = googleblocked) and Joël Audrenn (lots inc THIS

i am now wonderin if the perishers is sekritly ripped off of the morris comic-book maybe