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The Wailing Wind
by Hillerman, Tony
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060194448
- ISBN 13
- 9780060194444
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Harpercollinspublishers. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2002. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 0060194448 . A Near Fine Later printing with some wear to the boards and inking to the front in a Very Good+ dust-jacket that has scuffing and fraying around the edges; Tony Hillerman's novel, The Wailing Wind, is the story of a Navajo detective, Joe Leaphorn, and his partner, Jim Chee, as they investigate a series of murders on the reservation. The crimes seem to be linked to a powerful spirit known as the Wind. As the detectives try to solve the murders, they are also pitted against a corrupt government official and a group of Navajo extremists who are determined to stop the investigation at all costs.; 8vo; 232 pages; MR .
Synopsis
Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.To Officer Bernadette Manuelito, the man curled up on the truck seat was just another drunk -- which got Bernie in trouble for mishandling a crime scene -- which got Sergeant Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI -- which drew Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement and back into the old "Golden Calf" homicide, a case he had hoped to forget.Nothing had seemed complicated about that earlier one. A con game had gone sour. A swindler had tried to sell wealthy old Wiley Denton the location of one of the West's multitude of legendary lost gold mines. Denton had shot the swindler, called the police, confessed the homicide, and done his short prison time. No mystery there.Except why did the rich man's bride vanish? The cynics said she was part of the swindle plot. She'd fled when it failed. But, alas, old Joe Leaphorn was a romantic. He believed in love, and thus the Golden Calf case still troubled him. Now, papers found in this new homicide case connect the victim to Denton and to the mythical Golden Calf Mine. The first Golden Calf victim had been there just hours before Denton killed him. And while Denton was killing him, four children trespassing among the rows of empty bunkers in the long-abandoned Wingate Ordnance Depot called in an odd report to the police. They had heard, in the wind wailing around the old buildings, what sounded like music and the cries of a woman.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54113
- Title
- The Wailing Wind
- Author
- Hillerman, Tony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- Fourth Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0060194448
- ISBN 13
- 9780060194444
- Publisher
- Harpercollinspublishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
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