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The Wailing Wind CD

  • Tony Hillerman

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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

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Indian reservation police
  • Police
  • Large type books
  • Lt. Leaphorn, Joe (Fictitious character)
  • Navajo Indians
  • Jim Chee (Fictitious character)
  • Mystery
  • Goldmines and mining
  • Navajo detectives
  • Navajo Tribal Police
  • Leaphorn, Joe, Lt. (Fictitious character)
  • Chee, Jim (Fictitious character)
  • Leaphorn, joe, lt. (fictitious character), fiction
  • Chee, jim (fictitious character), fiction
  • Indians of north america, fiction
  • New mexico, fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • Literature and fiction, mystery and 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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    Harper

    September 28, 2010

  • Edition cover

    HarperAudio

    2013

  • Edition cover

    HarperCollins

    2002

  • Edition cover

    1st ed.

    HarperCollinsPublishers

    2002

Edition cover

1st ed.

HarperCollinsPublishers

2002

  • Edition cover

    HarperTorch

    2002

  • Edition cover

    HarperCollins

    May 7, 2002

  • Edition cover

    Lrg edition

    HarperCollins

    May 7, 2002

  • Edition cover

    Unabridged edition

    HarperAudio

    May 7, 2002

  • Edition cover

    HarperAudio

    May 7, 2002

  • Edition cover

  • Edition cover

    Unabridged edition

    Recorded Books

    April 2003