Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash (21 page)

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Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Dan Yaccarino

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Van Draanen, Wendelin.

Sammy Keyes and the cold hard cash / Wendelin Van Draanen; [illustrations by Dan Yaccarino]—1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Sammy meets a mysterious man who dies of a heart attack after telling her to get rid of the large amount of money he is carrying, leading her to investigate who the man was and how he came to be carrying so much cash.

[1. Wealth—Fiction. 2. Counterfeits and counterfeiting—Fiction. 3. Death—Fiction. 4. Veterans—Fiction. 5. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Yaccarino, Dan, ill. II. Title.

PZ7.V2857Sabm 2008

[Fic]—dc22

2008020643

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