- Fiction, Navajo Indians, Police, Jim Chee (Fictitious character)
The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez—a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect's refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Tony Hillerman
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 349
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Recorded Books, Inc., Tandem Library
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060548094
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- Fiction
- Navajo Indians
- Police
- Jim Chee (Fictitious character)
- Lt. Leaphorn, Joe (Fictitious character)
- Detective and mystery stories
- Indian reservation police
- Mystery
- Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- Chee, jim (fictitious character), fiction
- Navajo indian reservation, fiction
- Southwestern states, fiction
“OFFICER JIM CHEE was thinking that either his right front tire was a little low or there was something wrong with the shock on that side.”
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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