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The Wailing Wind
by Hillerman, Tony
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0061098795
- ISBN 13
- 9780061098796
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About This Item
New York: Harper Torch. Very Good+. 2003. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light reading creases, slightly sunned spine, minor foxing to endpapers and edge of reading block. ; First printing of mass market edition with full number line, April 2003. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Wrap around cover artwork uncredited. ; 368 pages; Officer Bernadette Manuelito found the dead man slumped over in the cab of a blue pickup abandoned in a dry gulch off a dirt road - with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket and a tobacco tin nearly filled with tracer gold. It's her initial mishandling of the scene that spell trouble for her supervisor, Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police - but it's the echoes of a long ago crime that call the legendary former Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement... .
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.To Officer Bernadette Manuelito, the man curled up on the truck seat was just another drunk -- which got Bernie in trouble for mishandling a crime scene -- which got Sergeant Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI -- which drew Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement and back into the old "Golden Calf" homicide, a case he had hoped to forget.Nothing had seemed complicated about that earlier one. A con game had gone sour. A swindler had tried to sell wealthy old Wiley Denton the location of one of the West's multitude of legendary lost gold mines. Denton had shot the swindler, called the police, confessed the homicide, and done his short prison time. No mystery there.Except why did the rich man's bride vanish? The cynics said she was part of the swindle plot. She'd fled when it failed. But, alas, old Joe Leaphorn was a romantic. He believed in love, and thus the Golden Calf case still troubled him. Now, papers found in this new homicide case connect the victim to Denton and to the mythical Golden Calf Mine. The first Golden Calf victim had been there just hours before Denton killed him. And while Denton was killing him, four children trespassing among the rows of empty bunkers in the long-abandoned Wingate Ordnance Depot called in an odd report to the police. They had heard, in the wind wailing around the old buildings, what sounded like music and the cries of a woman.
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- Books in Bulgaria
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Wailing Wind
- Author
- Hillerman, Tony
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0061098795
- ISBN 13
- 9780061098796
- Publisher
- Harper Torch
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Mass Market PB
- Bookseller catalogs
- Thrillers;
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