Skeleton man
By: Tony Hillerman
Publisher: HarperTorch
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780060563462; 9780061378850
Subjects: Police; Navajo Indians; Aircraft accidents; Jim Chee (Fictitious character); Indian reservation police; Investigation; Lt. Leaphorn, Joe (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is coming out of retirement to help exonerate a slow, simple kid accused of robbing a trading post. Billy Tuve claims he received the diamond he tried to pawn from a mysterious old man in the canyon, and his story has attracted the dangerous attention of strangers to the Navajo lands - one more interested in a severed limb than in the fortune it was handcuffed to; another willing to murder to keep lost secrets hidden. But nature herself may prove the deadliest adversary, as Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee follow a puzzle - and a killer - down into the dark realm of Skeleton Man. -- from back cover.
Notes: Originally published: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2004.