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Sacred Clowns

Sacred Clowns

Sacred Clowns

Sacred Clowns

by Hillerman, Tony

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ISBN 10
006016767X
ISBN 13
9780060167677
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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 1993. 305 pgs. Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Jacket. Shallow bump to lower right corner and faint trace of foxing to upper texblock. Internally clean and unmarked. Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee reunite to solve a tribal murder. ISBN 006016767X #1792. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Alma Hochhauser Orenstein. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall.

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Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work and his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee; plus a special profile of the Navajo nation.Officer Chee attempts to solve two modern murders by deciphering the sacred clown's ancient message to the people of the Tano pueblo.AN ANCIENT TRUST IS BROKENDuring a Tano kachina ceremony something in the antics of the dancing koshare fills the air with tension. Moments later the clown is found brutally bludgeoned in the same manner that a reservation schoolteacher was killed just days before.In true Navajo style, Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police go back to the beginning to decipher the sacred clown's message to the people of the Tano pueblo. Amid guarded tribal secrets and crooked Indian traders, they find a trail of blood that links a runaway schoolboy, two dead bodies, and the mysterious presence of a sacred artifact.

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Bookseller
Ravenroost Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
1792
Title
Sacred Clowns
Author
Hillerman, Tony
Illustrator
Alma Hochhauser Orenstein
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
ISBN 10
006016767X
ISBN 13
9780060167677
Publisher
HarperCollins
Place of Publication
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published
1993
Size
8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inch
Keywords
Tony Hillerman, First Edition, Navajo, Mystery, Southwest, Joe Leaphorn, CHEE JIM Fiction
Bookseller catalogs
COMPLETE CATALOG; Fiction, Literature, Mystery, Classics; First Editions, Collectible;

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