When acting Lt. Jim Chee caught a Hopi eagle poacher red-handed and huddled over the body of a Navajo Tribal Police officer, he had an open-and-shut case -- at least until retired Navajo Tribal Police officer Joe Leaphorn showed up. Leaphorn was hired to find a biologist who disappeared from the same area ...
Three armed men raid the Ute tribe s gambling casino, kill a policeman, and disappear in the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. The FBI takes over the investigation and makes an explosive situation even hotter by naming a wounded deputy sheriff as a suspect -- a development that brings Tribal Poli...
Nothing had seemed complicated about the old “Golden Calf” case. A con game had gone sour. Wealthy old Wiley Denton had shot the swindler, called the police, confessed, and done his short prison time. No mystery there. Except why did the rich man’s bride vanish? Cynics said she was part of the swindle plot...
在线阅读本书Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is troubled by the nameless corpse discovered just inside his jurisdiction, at the edge of the Jicarilla Apache natural gas field. More troubling still is the FBI s insistence that the Bureau take over the case, calling the unidentifiedvictim s deat...
Tony Hillerman was born in Oklahoma in 1925. He joined the US Army in 1943 and won the Silver Star, the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Purple Heart after being wounded. After the war he attended the University of Oklahoma and worked as a journalist, eventually becoming editor of the New Mexican. In ...