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Two young boys suddenly disappear. One of them, a Zuni, leaves a pool of blood behind. Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police tracks the brutal killer. Three things complicate the search: an archeological dig, a steel hypodermic needle, and the strange laws of the Zuni. Compelling, terrifying, and highly suspenseful, "Dance Hall of the Dead" never relents from first page til last.
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Leaphorn and Chee volume 2
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[1973]
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No one was seriously alarmed by the disappearance of two teenage boys, until Lt. Joe Leaphorn found the splattered trail of blood which lead to a ritually slaughtered victim.
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 4
Leaphorn and Chee
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 4
Navajo mystery volume 4
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Leaphorn and Chee
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 4
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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 nothing good can survive . . including Chee. Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and blood has nourished....
6) The ghostway
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Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks. This is all Tribal Policeman Jim Chee needs to set him off on an odyssey that moves from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L.A. to an ancient healing ceremony where death is the cure, and into the dark...
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Leaphorn and Chee volume 6
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1985, c1984
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Tribal policeman Jim Chee's search for a killer takes him from the desert to Los Angeles.
8) Skinwalkers
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"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,...
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Leaphorn and Chee volume 7
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c1986
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Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police are united in a murder investigation that leads them into the dark world of Navajo witchcraft.
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Leaphorn and Chee volume 8
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c1988
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A noted anthropologist arrives at an Anasazi Indian ruin to dig for clay pots and is terrified by what looms out of the darkness. Weeks later she is reported missing. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn unearths a bizarre and mystifying series of murders.
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee volume 2
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 8
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"A noted anthropologist vanishes at an ancient Indian ruin where 'thieves of time' ravage sacred ground for profit. When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders.
12) Talking god
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Reunited by a grave robber and a corpse, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is trying to determine the identity of a murder victim, while Officer Jim Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors. But with each peeled-back layer, it becomes shockingly clear that these two cases are mysteriously connected--and that others are pursuing Highhawk, with lethal intentions. And the search...
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Leaphorn and Chee volume 39
Pub. Date
c1989
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Separate police investigations become closely related when it becomes clear that Henry Highhawk is wanted by others besides the police and is involved in more than grave robbing.
15) The blessing way
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Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect a hint of the supernatural. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch...
16) Coyote waits
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Investigating the murder of a Navajo Tribal Policeman, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Sgt. Jim Chee unravel a complex plot of death involving a historical find, a lost fortune, and the mythical coyote, who is always waiting and always hungry.
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Leaphorn and Chee volume 1,2&3
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©1992
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This three-in-one volume contains the very apex of Tony Hillerman's award-winning writing: Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time, and Talking God. Each novel is complete and unabridged, and each features both of Hillerman's beloved Navajo Tribal Policemen, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, battling ancient evil and modern crime. Skinwalkers, the first book to unite Leaphorn and Chee, draws them deep into the realm of Navajo witchcraft as they investigate...
19) Sacred clowns
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During a kachina ceremony at the Tano Pueblo, the antics of a dancing koshare fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before.Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe that answers lie in the sacred clown's final cryptic message to the Tano people. But to decipher it, the two Navajo policemen may have to delve into closely guarded...
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Leaphorn and Chee volume 11
Pub. Date
c1993
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Navajo Tribal Policeman Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee attempt to unravel a web of tribal politics and murder.