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6) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
c2004
Formats
Description
While assisting Sergeant Jim Chee in investigating a robbery, Joe Leaphorn turns up a clue that leads to a search for the remains of a passenger--carrying a fortune in diamonds--on a plane that went down in the Grand Canyon fifty years earlier.
Author
Description
Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuni. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig-and a steel hypodermic needle. And the...
9) Coyote waits
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
292 p. : 25 cm.
Description
Another superior mystery involving American Indian policemen Chee and Leaphorn and the murder of another policeman. Annotation. The master's newest Chee-Leaphorn mystery with the usual informative Navajo anthropology.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A dying man is murdered. A rich man’s wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. A series of odd, inexplicable events is haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone into the Bad Country of the merciless Southwest, where everything good struggles to survive, including Chee. Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 304 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
After Sgt. Jim Chee discovers the body of a Navajo man with horribly flayed feet and hands, a number of apparently unrelated events leads him along a path of confusion. Was Chee being duped in a magician's elaborate sleight of hand?
12) The Ghostway
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7.25 hr.) : digital, stereophonic ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off in to the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not befoe he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks. This is enough to send Tribal Police man Jim Chee after a killer...and on an odyssey of murder and revenge that moves from an Indian hogan and its trapped ghost, to the dark underbelly of L.A., to a healing ceremony whose cure...
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Three shotgun blasts rip through the side of Officer Jim Chee's trailer as the Navajo Tribal Policeman sleeps. He survives, but the inexplicable attack has raised disturbing questions about a lawman once beyond reproach. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn wonders why Chee was a target and what connection the assault has to a series of gruesome murders that has been plaguing the reservation. But the investigation is leading them both into a nightmare of ritual,...
14) The blessing way
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Witchcraft appears to be involved in the death of an Indian whose body was found in Many Ruins Canyon and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is charged with the task of solving the crime.
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