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Sacred Clowns
by Tony Hillerman
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060168307
- ISBN 13
- 9780060168308
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. F/NF. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. 406 out of 526 copies. Stated First Edition. Signed by Tony Hillerman on the Limitation Page. The book is Like New. Tight with solid hinges and bindings, sharp corners, and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. No dust jacket, as issued. 305 pages. 6½ x 9¾" tall. The slipcase is Near Fine with faint marks to top, else Fine.
During a kachina ceremony at the Tano Pueblo, the antics of a dancing koshare fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before.
Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe that answers lie in the sacred clown's final cryptic message to the Tano people. But to decipher it, the two Navajo policemen may have to delve into closely guarded tribal secrets—on a sinister trail of blood that links a runaway, a holy artifact, corrupt Indian traders, and a pair of dead bodies.
Synopsis
Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work and his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee; plus a special profile of the Navajo nation.Officer Chee attempts to solve two modern murders by deciphering the sacred clown's ancient message to the people of the Tano pueblo.AN ANCIENT TRUST IS BROKENDuring a Tano kachina ceremony something in the antics of the dancing koshare fills the air with tension. Moments later the clown is found brutally bludgeoned in the same manner that a reservation schoolteacher was killed just days before.In true Navajo style, Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police go back to the beginning to decipher the sacred clown's message to the people of the Tano pueblo. Amid guarded tribal secrets and crooked Indian traders, they find a trail of blood that links a runaway schoolboy, two dead bodies, and the mysterious presence of a sacred artifact.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3871
- Title
- Sacred Clowns
- Author
- Tony Hillerman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover / Slipcase
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Signed Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060168307
- ISBN 13
- 9780060168308
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 305
- Size
- 6.5 x 9.75
- Keywords
- Joe Leaphorn, jim chee, pueblo, navajo
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Limited Editions; Signed Books;
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