People of Darkness [Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee 4]
by Hillerman, Tony
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG-/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0575031336
- ISBN 13
- 9780575031333
- Seller
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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz, 1982 VG-/VG. 8vo. original red boards gilt (ex-library with bookplate, tape marks etc. to outer leaves, s little rubbed & marked, spine slightly slanting) in dustwrapper priced £6.95 net (rubbed and a little creased, slightly marked); pp. [vi (last blank)], 202. A good reading copy of the fourth Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Navajo detective novel, in a presentable dustwrapper.. First UK. Hard Cover. VG-/VG.
Synopsis
Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.An assassin waits for Officer Jim Chee in the desert to protect a vision of death that for thirty years has been fed by greed and washed by blood.Who would murder a dying man? Why would someone steal a box of rocks? And why would a rich man's wife pay $3,000 to get them back? These questions haunt Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police as he journeys into the scorching Southwest. But there, out in the Bad Country, a lone assassin waits for Chee to come seeking answers, waits ready and willing to protect a vision of death that for thirty years has been fed by greed and washed in blood.
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- Seller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 029163
- Title
- People of Darkness [Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee 4]
- Author
- Hillerman, Tony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- First UK
- ISBN 10
- 0575031336
- ISBN 13
- 9780575031333
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Tony Hillerman People of Darkness Joe Leaphorn Jim Chee Navajo Detective New Mexico USA Native American Crime Murder Mystery Thriller
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