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Skeleton Man CD

  • Tony Hillerman

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Hailed as "a wonderful storyteller" by the New York Times, and a "national and literary cultural sensation" by the Los Angeles Times, bestselling author Tony Hillerman is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee. Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simple-minded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. He needs help and Chee, and his fiancee Bernie Manuelito, decide to provide it. Proving the kid's innocence requires finding the remains of one of 172 people whose bodies were scattered among the cliffs of the Grand Canyon in an epic airline disaster 50 years in the past. That passenger had handcuffed to his wrist an attache case filled with a fortune in -- one of which seems to have turned up in the robbery.But with Hillerman, it can't be that simple. The daughter of the long-dead diamond dealer is also seeking his body. So is a most unpleasant fellow willing to kill to make sure she doesn't succeed. These two tense tales collide deep in the canyon at the place where an old man died trying to build a cult reviving reverence for the Hopi guardian of the Underworld. It's a race to the finish in a thunderous monsoon storm to see who will survive, who will be brought to justice, and who will finally unearth the Skeleton Man

Genres

  • Mystery
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Police
  • Navajo Indians
  • Aircraft accidents
  • Jim Chee (Fictitious character)
  • Lt. Leaphorn, Joe (Fictitious character)
  • Indian reservation police
  • Investigation
  • Fiction
  • Leaphorn, Joe, Lt. (Fictitious character)
  • Chee, Jim (Fictitious character)
  • Large type books
  • Chee, jim (fictitious character), fiction
  • Leaphorn, joe, lt. (fictitious character), fiction
  • New mexico, fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • Fiction, suspense
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
  • Indians of north america, fiction
  • Fiction, thrillers, suspense
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About the author

  • Tony Hillerman

    27 May 1925 - 26 October 2008

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    6 ratings · 107 works

Editions

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    HarperTorch

    2006

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    Doubleday large print home library ed.

    HarperLargePrint

    2004

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    Lrg edition

    HarperCollins

    December 1, 2004

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    HarperCollins

    December 1, 2004

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Unabridged edition

Recorded Books, Brand: Recorded Books

December 2004

  • Edition cover

    1st ed.

    HarperCollins

    2004

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    HarperCollins

    2004

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    Recorded Books, Brand: Recorded Books

    December 2004

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    SO 07-09-04 4VTNB 1GT 1HT 3SC 1BE 1ME 1st ed.

    HarperCollins

    2004

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    HarperAudio

    November 23, 2004

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    Unabridged edition

    HarperAudio

    November 23, 2004

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    Harper

    May 25, 2010

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    Allison & Busby, Limited

    2005

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    Allison & Busby, Limited

    2006

  • Edition cover

    1st ed.

    HarperCollins

    2005

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    1st Harper large print ed.

    HarperLargePrint

    2004

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