title: When the Dead Speak (Sam Casey Mysteries)
author:  S.D. Tooley 
description: "A promising first mystery of particular interest to readers of Native American mysteries." -- <i>Booklist </i><br /><br />"It looks like Tooley has a winner on her first novel and I look forward to her next, Nothing Else Matters." -- <i>Mystery News</i><br /><br />"Nifty, X-Fileish without the alien tint, this novel slyly pulls you in and under..." -- <i>Buzz Review News </i>
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  ## WHEN THE DEAD SPEAK
  
  
    
  
  
  ### 1st Sam Casey Mystery
  
  
    
  
  
  ### S.D. Tooley
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names,
  
  
  characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's
  
  
  imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual
  
  
  events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Any
  
  
  slights of people, places, or organizations is purely
  
  
  unintentional.
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  Copyright © 1999 by S.D.
  
  
  Tooley
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  All rights reserved. This book, or parts
  
  
  thereof, may not be reproduced in any form, or by any means,
  
  
  without prior written permission.
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  Library of Congress Control Number
  
  
  98-96463
  
  
  ISBN 978-0-9820352-8-3
  
  
    
  
  
  Smashwords Edition
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  \- **PROLOGUE** -
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  Legend says that overcast skies are nature’s
  
  
  way of hiding evil, protecting the gods from seeing sinister deeds.
  
  
  So the clouds hovered, suspended by some unseen cosmic force. Even
  
  
  the Chicago winds weren’t able to blow the