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    Not Saleable For Sale: Poker Boy, #18
    Not Saleable For Sale: Poker Boy, #18
    Not Saleable For Sale: Poker Boy, #18
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    Not Saleable For Sale: Poker Boy, #18

    By Dean Wesley Smith

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    Lenny the Leprechaun’s wife went missing and now he wants Poker Boy to find her. Not known for finding people, Poker Boy only rescues people and dogs and the world in the process.

    Mrs. Lenny’s vanishing act seems to have no connection to Poker Boy. Until Poker Boy looks deeper.

    Then Poker Boy knows he might be able to save her, if she still lives. Which he doubts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateSep 22, 2016
    ISBN9781533795076
    Not Saleable For Sale: Poker Boy, #18
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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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      Not Saleable For Sale - Dean Wesley Smith

      Lenny the Leprechaun’s wife went missing and now he wants Poker Boy to find her. Not known for finding people, Poker Boy only rescues people and dogs and the world in the process.

      Mrs. Lenny’s vanishing act seems to have no connection to Poker Boy. Until Poker Boy looks deeper.

      Then Poker Boy knows he might be able to save her, if she still lives. Which he doubts.

      CHAPTER ONE

      SEEING A LEPRECHAUN appear in a small casino in the mountains of Oregon can make even a professional poker player like me lose my train of thought.

      I flipped my A-10 off-suit into the muck and turned to my right as the leprechaun waved at me.

      He had on the standard, leprechaun-green top hat that didn’t cover his pointed ears but sort of rode on them like they were training wheels for the big hat. He had a green jacket, brown pants, and a long-stemmed pipe in his mouth that didn’t seem to be lit. It stuck out of his scraggly red beard like a weed out of a ragged lawn.

      He wasn’t any taller than the back of a poker chair, and was as skinny as a flagpole. Somehow he climbed onto a chair, on top of an empty poker table, and then sat down, his big

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