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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 over a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He currently produces novels in four 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, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy. During his career he 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.

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