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    Penny Dead: A Sky Tate Story: Sky Tate
    Penny Dead: A Sky Tate Story: Sky Tate
    Penny Dead: A Sky Tate Story: Sky Tate
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    Penny Dead: A Sky Tate Story: Sky Tate

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    Sky Tate (superhero detective in the Poker Boy universe) can see when someone seems about to die. Her new client looks almost dead.

    Sky first needs to find out why.

    And then keep her client alive. Somehow.

    No other detective like Sky Tate to bring some fun into a deadly situation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateApr 1, 2021
    ISBN9781393565123
    Penny Dead: A Sky Tate Story: Sky Tate

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      Penny Dead - WMG Publishing

      Penny Dead

      Penny Dead

      A Sky Tate Short Story

      Dean Wesley Smith

      WMG Publishing, Inc.

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      Penny Dead

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      Also by Dean Wesley Smith

      About the Author

      Penny Dead

      A Sky Tate Story

      People who are about to die have a very strange look about them. Sort of like they are hollow and empty and pale. A walking shell. Normal people can’t see this, which I suppose is good. No one really wants to know when someone close to them is about to die for whatever reason.

      But as a superhero in the private detective world, I had the power to see the almost dead. One of the reasons I seldom went into hospitals or anywhere near retirement homes. Just too damned depressing.

      I also could see real ghost agents, but that was another matter.

      I was supposed to meet a woman by the name of Penny Stevens in Benny’s Diner at one in the afternoon. The day was nice, not too hot, so I actually drove with the roof of my Cadillac open the ten blocks to the appointment. Sometimes Vegas weather can just be flat wonderful.

      Now Benny’s is a small restaurant tucked into

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