Half a Clue: A Cold Poker Gang Short Story: Cold Poker Gang

By Dean Wesley Smith

Picket and Sarge, two recently retired Las Vegas Detectives, volunteer their time for the Cold Poker Gang task force that solves cold cases. Plus, they fell in love along the way.

Vicki Dix's disappearance remains at the top of the strange cold cases of all time in Las Vegas, and for Las Vegas that says a lot.

Vicki, a well-liked attorney for a major firm, simply walked into her own home and vanished without a trace. Picket and Sarge decide to take one more look at the impossible case. Just one more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: May 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201466954

Dean Wesley Smith

Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names. He has written books and comics for Marvel, DC Comics, and Dark Horse, as well as scripts for Hollywood. Over his career, he also worked as an editor and publisher for Pulphouse Publishing and Pocket Books. Currently, he writes thrillers and mysteries under one of his many pseudonyms.

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Half a Clue

Half a Clue

A Cold Poker Gang Short Story

Dean Wesley Smith

WMG Publishing, Inc.

Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

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Prologue

October 21 st, 2005

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Vicki Dix spent the twenty-minute drive from her office near the university to her new home north of Las Vegas listening to a talk show about the new Supreme Court term. She had been a lawyer now for five years and loved everything about the law, including listening to political discussions about the high court.

And she didn’t mind the perks that came with loving the law, like her new red Lexus she had just bought a week before. It had a fantastic climate-controlled interior and amazing sound system. In the morning, on the way to the office, she listened to a jazz station just to remind herself how good she had it.

In three days, she had a date with a guy she had met at a reception for a client a few days before. It would be her first date in a while, since her job had pretty much swallowed any free time.

And what little free time she