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    A Bad Day for the Dream: Cold Poker Gang
    A Bad Day for the Dream: Cold Poker Gang
    A Bad Day for the Dream: Cold Poker Gang
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    A Bad Day for the Dream: Cold Poker Gang

    By Dean Wesley Smith

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    Thirty years ago in Las Vegas, Becky Penn said goodnight to her mother to go out with friends and vanished without a trace.

    Retired Detectives Bayard Lott and Julia Rogers, members of the Cold Poker Gang, take on Becky Penn's cold case.

    They love working with other retired detectives and playing a little poker once a week, all to solve cold cases.

    A puzzle mystery unraveled carefully by the retired detectives who make up the Cold Poker Gang.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateApr 6, 2016
    ISBN9781524230609
    A Bad Day for the Dream: Cold Poker Gang
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    Dean Wesley Smith

    Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang. His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70,000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month. During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies. He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown. Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series. For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.

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      A Bad Day for the Dream - Dean Wesley Smith

      A Bad Day for the Dream

      A Bad Day for the Dream

      Dean Wesley Smith

      Contents

      Prologue

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

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      About the Author

      Also by Dean Wesley Smith

      Prologue

      March 3 rd, 1990

      Las Vegas, Nevada

      BECKY PENN TIED her long brown hair back away from her face and laughed as her mom stood in their bathroom door, arms crossed over her chest, the worried look that Becky saw so much from her.

      Her mom had raised her since their father had left when Becky was three. The two of them were more like sisters at times and Becky loved that.

      Becky was dressed in a light skirt, a new blouse she had just bought, and had on sandals, since the weather was already starting to warm up.

      Becky’s mom had already changed from her nursing scrubs into a light sweatshirt and jeans. She seldom wore shoes around the house and tonight was no exception.

      "It’s all

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