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Skeleton Man (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels)by Tony Hillerman
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Book DescriptionHarperCollins. Used - Very Good. Published: 2004. Hardcover. Dust jacket: Very Good. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Very Good condition, showing little signs of wear. Book summaryRetired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police return for a 17th mystery in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series. Chee, Leaphorn, and Chee's fiancee Bernie Manuelito are attempting to clear the name of a young man accused of robbery and murder. Their investigation leads to a catastrophic collision between two airplanes that occurred nearly half a century ago, and a search for the remains of one of the victims, a diamond dealer, believed to be at the bottom of the Grand Canyon along with a sizeable sample of his merchandise. Both the diamonds and what's left of the body are important prizes, as the DNA in the skeleton could confirm a young woman's claim to the dead man's sizeable estate. The action climaxes with a perilous struggle by several interested parties to be first to reach the remains and the diamonds.Media Reviews"[S]terling....Hillerman continues to shine as the best of the West." (starred review) -- Publishers Weekly "[C]onsiderable suspense in the race to bottom of one of the most spectacular and treacherous landscapes Hillerman's ever explored." -- Kirkus "[A] masterly working of...[a]...powerful [Hopi] myth....No wonder Hillerman's stories never grow old. Like myths, they keep evolving with the telling." -- Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review First LineLieutenant Joe Leaphorn, retired, had been explaining how the complicated happening below the Salt Woman Shrine illustrated his Navajo belief in universal connections. Publisher NotesHailed as "a wonderful storyteller" by the New York Times, and a "national and literary cultural sensation" by the Los Angeles Times, bestselling author Tony Hillerman is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee. Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simple-minded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. He needs help and Chee, and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito, decide to provide it. Proving the kid's innocence requires finding the remains of one of 172 people whose bodies were scattered among the cliffs of the Grand Canyon in an epic airline disaster 50 years in the past. That passenger had handcuffed to his wrist an attaché case filled with a fortune in-- one of which seems to have turned up in the robbery. But with Hillerman, it can't be that simple. The daughter of the long-dead diamond dealer is also seeking his body. So is a most unpleasant fellow willing to kill to make sure she doesn't succeed. These two tense tales collide deep in the canyon at the place where an old man died trying to build a cult reviving reverence for the Hopi guardian of the Underworld. It's a race to the finish in a thunderous monsoon storm to see who will survive, who will be brought to justice, and who will finally unearth the Skeleton Man.
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