Search Results: NAVAJO from Murder By The Book

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 2004. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket, New book. The 2nd mystery featuring Native American Lee Nez, a nightwalker - a Navajo vampire. Laid in is a SIGNED Navajo inspired bookplate, signed by both authors. He's also a New Mexico state police officer. Paired with FBI agent Diane Lopez, Lee is tracking down violent smugglers who have killed two cops while bringing silver and turquoise across the border from Mexico. Shocked to discover that the smugglers are Navajo shapeshifters/skinwalkers, Lee and Diane realize they must wipe out the whole pack, and fast, before the skinwalkers realize there's a nightwalker on their tails. Werewolves and vampires are deadly enemies.a Navajo vampire and New Mexico State Policeman.. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1990. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn mystery. "Plumbing more deeply than ever the Navajo culture of Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, Hillerman ( Talking God ) weaves an understated, powerful tale from strands of ancient Navajo mythology, modern greed and ambition, and, above all, the sorrows and delights of his characters. Although Chee is badly burned in an attempt to rescue fellow officer Delbert Nez, who has been shot and left in his burning car, he blames himself for Nez's death. On medical leave and off the case, Chee tries to facilitate the prompt prosecution of elderly shaman Ashie Pinto, found near the murder site in a drunken stupor, the weapon in his hand still smoking. Leaphorn, too, becomes unofficially involved when he agrees to investigate the charges against Pinto on behalf of the latter's… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins Publishers, 1982. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket, no tears and not price clipped, $12.50 original price is still present A Jim Chee mystery. The corpse had been “scalped,” its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this case, a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee’s fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Navajo sorcery and white man’s greed. And it will sweep away everything unless Chee can somehow change the weather.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Santa Fe: New Mexico: Red Crane Books, 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Author's 1st book. Murder & witchcraft set on Navajo & Jicarilla Apache lands. High praise from Hillerman. Small first printing of only 1000 copies. Ron Querry's debut novel, originally published in 1993 by Red Crane, is a foundational novel in contemporary Native American writing. Querry uses the alternating viewpoints of Gracie, Bernadette's younger sister, and Starr Stubbs, the wealthy New Yorker who lives just outside of Dulce, New Mexico-to detail the tragic end of Bernadette's life. The conflicting accounts create a compelling novel about heritage, family, and the dark magic of the twisted soul.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1996. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A JOE LEAPHORN/ JIM CHEE MYSTERY.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St. Martin, 1992. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. 3rd Joshu Croft set in a Southwest Navajo reservation.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: St. Martin, 1992. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. 3rd Joshu Croft set in a Southwest Navajo reservation.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 1985. 1st ed. Some light edgewear, a crease to the front fold, a very small chip to the front cover, light browning to extremities. Author's ninth novel, Jim Chee.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Harper, 1993. 1st edition of the Advanced Reading Copy. Has 3 stains at foreedge else about fine. Leaphorn and Chee reunited.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

N.Y.: Harper, 1993. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Leaphorn and Chee reunited.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperTrade, 1989. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Chee & Leaphorn. 1st. Fine in dj. "...here Hillerman sets Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee in Washington, D.C., as each uses vacation time to follow separate cases that will connect in a clash of violence at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History. Chee has come at the request of Janet Pete, a Navajo lawyer with a case that involves a ceremonial mask of Yeibichai, or Talking God, maternal grandfather of all the other Navajo gods, and a museum curator named Henry Highhawk, who claims Navajo ancestry and wants to be included on tribal rolls. Leaphorn's interest rises from a puzzling homicide case--an unidentified corpse found near Gallup, N.M., with a note mentioning a pending Yeibichai ceremony. Just as Leaphorn's tenacity reveals the dead man was a leftist Chilean terrorist, Highhawk is killed (in a spooky late-night scene in the Museum) and the… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harper, 1989. 1st. Fine in dj. "...here Hillerman sets Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee in Washington, D.C., as each uses vacation time to follow separate cases that will connect in a clash of violence at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History. Chee has come at the request of Janet Pete, a Navajo lawyer with a case that involves a ceremonial mask of Yeibichai, or Talking God, maternal grandfather of all the other Navajo gods, and a museum curator named Henry Highhawk, who claims Navajo ancestry and wants to be included on tribal rolls. Leaphorn's interest rises from a puzzling homicide case--an unidentified corpse found near Gallup, N.M., with a note mentioning a pending Yeibichai ceremony. Just as Leaphorn's tenacity reveals the dead man was a leftist Chilean terrorist, Highhawk is killed (in a spooky late-night scene in the Museum) and the pivotal role of the Talking God mask comes into play..." PW. First… Read More

N.Y.: Harper Collins, 1994. First Edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Detailed endpaper maps of Hillerman country. Essential reading/reference for any Hillerman fan. Contents include a chronology; a book by book guide to Hillerman's detective fiction by Jon L. Breen; with an extensive interview with Hillerman by Breen; An essay on the Navajo Nation by George Hardeen; a guide to Native American clans in Tony Hillerman's fiction and a concordance of Tony Hillerman's characters by Elizabeth Gaines and Diane Hammer; along with a selections of nonfiction & fiction. 8 pages of photographs. 375pp. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.