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Tony Hillerman has been racking up awards for more than two decades, both for individual books and for his cumulative work. It started in 1974 with the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel for Dance Hall of the Dead, and included two Doctorates of Literature. In Coyote Waits, Navajo tribal police officer Delbert Nez is killed. Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee search for Nez's killer, and also the killer of a history professor and former South Vietnamese military officer. Are the murders related? Coyote Waits was made into a PBS Mystery movie. 291 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Peter Thorpe.
Coyote Waits
Hillerman, Tony
New York: Harper & Row, 1990.
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Tony Hillerman has been racking up awards for more than two decades, both for individual books and for his cumulative work. It started in 1974 with the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel for Dance Hall of the Dead, and included two Doctorates of Literature. In Hunting Badger, Jim Chee and now-retired Joe Leaphorn are in search of a group of militiamen who robbed a Ute tribal casino and the murder of the head of the casino's security team, and the wounding of a Navajo police officer moonlighting as a security guard. The book is based on true events. Brown paper over pumpkin boards. 275 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". Jacket design and illustration by Peter Thorpe.
Hunting Badger
Hillerman, Tony
New York: Harper Collins, 1999.
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Tony Hillerman has been racking up awards for more than two decades, both for individual books and for his cumulative work. It started in 1974 with the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel for Dance Hall of the Dead, and included two Doctorates of Literature. In Hunting Badger, Jim Chee and now-retired Joe Leaphorn are in search of a group of militiamen who robbed a Ute tribal casino and the murder of the head of the casino's security team, and the wounding of a Navajo police officer moonlighting as a security guard. The book is based on true events. Brown paper over pumpkin boards. 275 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". Jacket design and illustration by Peter Thorpe.
Hunting Badger
Hillerman, Tony
New York: Harper Collins, 1999.
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Tony Hillerman has been racking up awards for more than two decades, both for individual books and for his cumulative work. It started in 1974 with the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel for Dance Hall of the Dead, and included two Doctorates of Literature. In Skeleton Man, a diamond from a long-lost stolen stash reappears. Navajo tribal police officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito search for the rest of the stash, and the man who was carrying them when his plane crashed in the Grand Canyon in 1956. 241 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design and illustration by Peter Thorpe.
Skeleton Man
Hillerman, Tony
New York: Harper Collins, 2004.
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Tony Hillerman has been racking up awards for more than two decades, both for individual books and for his cumulative work. It started in 1974 with the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel for Dance Hall of the Dead, and included two Doctorates of Literature. In The Fallen Man, a skeleton is found at a Navajo sacred place. Joe Leaphorn, now retired, thinks the skeleton is connected to a decade-old unsolved case. Retirement doesn't prevent him from assisting Jim Chee in the investigation. 294 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". Jacket design and illustration by Peter Thorpe.
The Fallen Man
Hillerman, Tony
New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
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Maps on endpapers. Tony Hillerman has been racking up awards for more than two decades, both for individual books and for his cumulative work. It started in 1974 with the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel for Dance Hall of the Dead, and included two Doctorates of Literature. In The Wailing Wind, veteran tribal police officers Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn investigate two crimes, an old one and a new one, both seemingly related to a gold mine. A new female officer, Bernie Manuelito, assists. 232 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design and illustration by Peter Thorpe.
The Wailing Wind
Hillerman, Tony
New York: Harper Collins, 2002.
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In The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, prolific author Tony Hillerman changes hats and turns his hand to editing, along with Otto Penzler, who has edited several of the "Best" collections. The list of short story authors in this compilation includes many familiar names, but also some authors not usually thought of as mystery writers. And, of course, they span the 20th Century: O. Henry, Willa Cather, Jacques Futrelle, Frederick Irving Anderson, Melville Davisson Post, Susan Glaspell, Dashiell Hammett, Ring Lardner, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Ben Ray Redman, James M. Cain, John Steinbeck, Damon Runyan, Pearl S. Buck, Raymond Chandler, James Thurber, Cornell Woolrich, William Faulkner, Harry Kemelman, Ellery Queen, John D. MacDonald, Ross Macdonald, Stanley Ellin, Evan Hunter, Margaret Millar, Henry Slesar, Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, Jerome Weidman, Joe Gores, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Jack Ritchie, Lawrence Block, Stephen Greenleaf, Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, Donald E. Westlake, James Crumley, Brendan DuBois, Michael Malone, Tom Franklin, and Dennis Lehane. 813 pp. 8 7/8" X 6". Cover design by Christopher Molsan.
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
Hillerman, Tony, and Otto Penzler, eds.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
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