U. Press of Colorado, 1995. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket with a faintly sunned spine panel and "autographed copy" emblem.. Inscribed by the author.

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When the Arapaho tribal chairman is found murdered in his tepee at the Ethete powwow, the evidence points to the chairman's nephew, Anthony Castle. But Father John O'Malley, pastor of St. Francis Mission, and Vicky Holden, the Arapaho lawyer, do not believe the young man capable of murder. Together they set out to find the real murderer and clear Anthony's name. The trail that Father John and Vicky follow winds across the high plains of the Wind River Reservation into Arapaho homes and community centers and into the fraud-infested world of Indian oil and land deals. Eventually it leads to the past— the Old Time— when the Arapahos were forced from their homes on the Great Plains and sent to the reservation. There in the Old Time, Father John and Vicky discover a crime so heinous that someone was willing to commit murder more than a hundred years later to keep it hidden. As they close in a killer who does not hesitate to kill again, they discover they have become the next targets... Critics have praised The Eagle Catcher as a tightly crafted mystery that blends Native American culture and history with contemporary issues and fast-paced action. It introduced two intelligent, compassionate sleuths: Father John O'Malley, S.J., a history scholar and recovering alcoholic, exiled to an Indian mission on the Great Plains, and Vicky Holden, an attorney who, after ten years in the outside world, has returned to the reservation to help her people.

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Bookseller: The Hermitage Bookshop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 195423
Title: The Eagle Catcher
Author: Coel, Margaret
Book Condition: Used - Fine in fine dust jacket with a faintly sunned spine panel and "autographed copy" emblem.
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition, first printing
Publisher: U. Press of Colorado
Date Published: 1995
Keywords: signed.

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