- Fiction, Navajo Indians, Police, Jim Chee (Fictitious character)
Human bones lie on a ledge under the peak of Ship Rock mountain, the remains of a murder victim undisturbed for more than a decade. Three hundred miles across the Navajo reservation, a harmless old canyon guide is felled by a sniper's bullet.
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- Author
- Tony Hillerman
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc., Tandem Library, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781580600507
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“FROM WHERE BILL BUCHANAN SAT with his back resting against the rough breccia, he could see the side of Whiteside's head, about three feet away.”
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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