- Mystery, Police in fiction, Navajo Indians in fiction, Police
Navajo tribal policeman Jim Chee, barred from following up on a multi-million dollar drug case, investigates a murder and a vandalism incident and finds that perhaps all three cases are part of the same pattern.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Tony Hillerman
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Sphere, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780062895547
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Anthony Grove Hillerman was an American author of detective novels and nonfiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels. Several of his works have been adapted as theatrical and television movies.
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