- Hardcover: 292 pages
- Publisher: Harpercollins; First Edition edition (July 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060163704
- ISBN-13: 978-0060163709
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 14.7 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 940,625 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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On trial is a poor Navajo charged with the murder of a sheriff. The star witness is Jim Chee, best friend of the murdered man. Lt Leaphorn observes the trial at the request of the defendant's family, who are old friends. Their separate trails lead both detectives to the heart of a complex plot.
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OFFICER JIM CHEE was thinking that either his right front tire was a little low or there was something wrong with the shock on that side. Read the first page
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Jim Chee sits drinking coffee while partner Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez meets his demise. Chee catches the obvious perpetrator. A Navaho shaman, with a bottle in one hand and THE gun in his belt. Case closed.
Because of his guilt at not backing up his partner and at the insistence of Chee's on again and off again relationship with the defending attorney, Janet Pete, Chee must find out for him self what happened and if he may have made a mistake.
Because of a relationship through is dead wife with Ashie Pinto's (the defendant) clan and also being pushed by Dr. Bourbonette (anthropologist), who insists that Ashie is being railroaded, Joe Leaphorn but also investigate from a different angle. He is constantly thinking about what his dead wife Emma would say in the situation.
Because of his guilt at not backing up his partner and at the insistence of Chee's on again and off again relationship with the defending attorney, Janet Pete, Chee must find out for him self what happened and if he may have made a mistake.
Because of a relationship through is dead wife with Ashie Pinto's (the defendant) clan and also being pushed by Dr. Bourbonette (anthropologist), who insists that Ashie is being railroaded, Joe Leaphorn but also investigate from a different angle. He is constantly thinking about what his dead wife Emma would say in the situation.
Both men are pushed into what looks like an endless amount of overlapping mysteries of which the murder of Delbert Nez is just one. They - and we - must deal with the history of the CIA and that of witches.
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As well as the usual fascinating background of the Navajo Indian reservation, it's customs, traditions and culture, this novel comes with a great story that doesn't unravel until the very end. As we criss-cross the "Rez" to find out what really happened when a Navajo police officer is shot dead in his car and then burnt, we come across a shaman, white academics with an interest in Indian affairs, the FBI, and Vietnamese who have worked for the CIA. A mystery which tests the resources of Leaphorn and Chee, Hillerman's Navajo Tribal Police detectives to the limit. Storywise, it's the best of the Hillerman's I've read.
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Jim Chee sits drinking coffee while partner Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez meets his demise. Chee catches the obvious perpetrator. A Navaho shaman, with a bottle in one hand and THE gun in his belt. Case closed.
Because of his guilt at not backing up his partner and at the insistence of Chee's on again and off again relationship with the defending attorney, Janet Pete, Chee must find out for him self what happened and if he may have made a mistake.
Because of a relationship through is dead wife with Ashie Pinto's (the defendant) clan and also being pushed by Dr. Bourbonette (anthropologist), who insists that Ashie is being railroaded, Joe Leaphorn but also investigate from a different angle. He is constantly thinking about what his dead wife Emma would say in the situation.
Both men are pushed into what looks like an endless amount of overlapping mysteries of which the murder of Delbert Nez is just one. They - and we - must deal with the history of the CIA and that of witches.
Sacred Clowns
Because of his guilt at not backing up his partner and at the insistence of Chee's on again and off again relationship with the defending attorney, Janet Pete, Chee must find out for him self what happened and if he may have made a mistake.
Because of a relationship through is dead wife with Ashie Pinto's (the defendant) clan and also being pushed by Dr. Bourbonette (anthropologist), who insists that Ashie is being railroaded, Joe Leaphorn but also investigate from a different angle. He is constantly thinking about what his dead wife Emma would say in the situation.
Both men are pushed into what looks like an endless amount of overlapping mysteries of which the murder of Delbert Nez is just one. They - and we - must deal with the history of the CIA and that of witches.
Sacred Clowns
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