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Tony Hillerman
This is a splendid memoir, an affectionate and unvarnished recollection of the life of one of America’s best-loved writers today. Beginning with his upbringing in Depression-era Oklahoma, this book spans…
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When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to…
Steven J Clark
All Matthew Yazee wants when he walks into the Whitehorse, Stevens, and Whitehorse law offices in Farmington, NM is for his employer, EnviroGuard Recovery Services, to cover his medical bills…
When two young boys disappear, one of them leaving a pool of blood behind, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police finds himself not only tracking a ruthless and…
A rich gathering of essays that evoke the unique and mysterious appeal that New Mexico has had for some of the twentieth century’s best known writers. Included here are selections…
James McGrath Morris
The author of eighteen spellbinding detective novels set on the Navajo Nation, Tony Hillerman simultaneously transformed a traditional genre and unlocked the mysteries of the Navajo culture to an audience…
John Sobel
The first biography of this talented writer of the popular mysteries A Thief of Time, Coyote Waits , and many more. [biography]
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John Reilly
This is a study of the narrative techniques and thematic investigations of Hillerman’s detective fiction which illuminates the way he has crafted a new and profound method for understanding the…
T Hillerman,Ernie Bulow
Tony Hillerman discusses his craft, including his approach to plot, characterisation, and setting, and the wrinkles and twists that make his brand of fiction unique. These and other insights into…
The first photographs of the D-day landing were taken by Signal Corps and delivered by carrier pigeons to command headquarters in England.
An American undertakes a dangerous search in Asia for his Amerasian niece. When his brother is killed in a helicopter crash and the Vietnamese wife dies soon after, Mathias Moon…
Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is back in this latest tale of murder and mystery from a New York Times bestselling author. With Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito on their honeymoon…
Esteemed and award-winning novelist Tony Hillerman calls upon today’s brightest stars of contemporary suspense to create a unique collection of original stories set in the American West. This anthology features…
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police investigate a series of murders when an anthropologist working at an Anasazi ruin goes missing and two corpses…
Indian tribal policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee investigate a casino robbery which killed a guard and wounded another. A manhunt takes them into the canyons of the Four Corners…
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A hardcover edition of this book was originally published in 1989 by Harper & Row, Publishers.
Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
The First Eagle displays all the strengths of Hillerman’s writing…
Discovering a link between the woman he loves and a political murder, Navajo tribal police Sergeant Jim Chee joins a map-wielding Joe Leaphorn on the heels of a fleeing Washington…
First Harper paperbacks edition published January 1990, reissued July 2018 –Title page verso.
This long-awaited new novel from the author of such blockbuster bestsellers as Coyote Waits and A Thief of Time is Tony Hillerman at his best. In a taught and richly…
First Harper Paperbacks edition published January 1991; reissued July 2018 –Copyright page.
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A hardcover edition of this book was originally published in 1987 by Harper & Row, Publishers.
Reissue of First Harper Paperbacks edition.
After Sgt. Jim Chee discovers the body of a Navajo man with horribly flayed feet and hands, a number of apparently unrelated events leads him along a path of confusion…
The mishandling of a murder scene places Navajo Tribal Police sergeant Jim Chee on the bad side of the FBI and brings ex-lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement into an…
Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, former lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is running out of stories to tell at the weekly coffee klatches with his buddies. That is until…
Navajo police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn must solve a murder apparently committed by a supernatural being, the Wolf-Witch.
Investigating the discovery of a skeleton at one of the holiest places in Navajo religion, Jim Chee and the newly retired Joe Leaphorn realize that the body is that of…
Anne Hillerman,Don Strel
This handsomely illustrated map shows you where to find many of the landscapes Tony Hillerman loved and wrote about.
Anne Hillerman
A collection of original documentary photographs of the landscape that was integral to Tony Hillerman’s writing. It also contains brief synopses of Hillerman’s novels, descriptive passages from each work, the…
A collection of classic and contemporary fiction and non-fiction evoking the spirit of the West and its people, selected and introduced by Tony Hillerman.
This John Grisham meets Tony Hillerman-style legal thriller, set in and around the vast Navajo reservation in the American Southwest, is fiction that became fact even as the author was…
A Zuni myth first recorded a century ago.
Picking up where Dorothy Sayers’ The Omnibus of Crime left off, The New Omnibus collects the great crime stories written from the 1930s to the present.
This fantastic new collection picks up where Dorothy L. Sayers left off, bringing together monumental, important,and entertaining works of short crime fiction published over eight decades from the era of…
This classic collection of nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico by Tony Hillerman remains a must read for anyone looking to understand the state’s unique charm. The engaging pieces…
Laurance Linford
Linford takes readers on a journey through the Four Corners region to the haunts of Hillerman’s characters. Offered in encyclopedic form, each entry gives the common name of a particular…
In this essential distillation of American suspense, 100 years worth of peerless tales are collected into a volume where giants of the genre abound: Raymond Chandler, Lawrence Block, Sue Grafton…
