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Though he’s officially retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn occasionally helps his former colleagues Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito crack particularly puzzling crimes. But there is that rare unsolved investigation that haunts every lawman, including the legendary Leaphorn. Joe still hasn’t let go of his “last case”—a mystery involving a priceless Navajo rug that was supposedly destroyed in a fire. Nine years later, what looks like the same one-of-a-kind rug turns up in a magazine spread, and the man who showed Joe the photo has gone missing.

Though he may be retired, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn hasn’t lost his curiosity or his edge. He’s eager to help Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito with their latest case—clearing an innocent kid accused of robbing a trading post. Billy Tuve claims he received the precious diamond from a strange old man in the canyon. Could it be one of the gems that went missing in an epic plane crash decades earlier? Now that it may have resurfaced, it’s attracted dangerous strangers to the Navajo lands.

A Zuni Indian boy dies in a bizarre ritual slaying - and his best friend, a Navajo youth, is missing. Navajo police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn tracks the friend from Zuni village to Navajo hogan, from anthropological dig to hippie commune, across the desert of New Mexico and Arizona.

This classic collection of nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico by the great Tony Hillerman remains a must listen for anyone looking to understand the state's unique charm. The engaging pieces in The Great Taos Bank Robbery unveil the life and magic one experiences in the Land of Enchantment.

Bei einer Verkehrskontrolle entgeht Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn von der Navajo-Police nur knapp einem Mordversuch. Während er sich bemüht, den flüchtigen Täter ausfindig zu machen, wird ihm ein neuer Fall übertragen: ein Doppelmord in einem abgelegenen Hogan. Die alte Margaret Cigaret will ihn in einer Vision vorhergesehen haben. Leaphorn folgt den verschlungenen Wegen der beiden Fälle und findet sich bald in einem Labyrinth aus Täuschungen, Widersprüchen und Geheimnissen wieder – ein Labyrinth, das ihn in eine gefährliche Richtung zwingt.

Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn von der Navajo-Police ermittelt im zerklüfteten Canyon Country, beschattet von den scharfkantigen Felsen des Corn-Mountain-Massivs. Aus den Angelegenheiten der benachbarten Zuñi hält er sich eigentlich raus. Als aber zusammen mit dem jungen Zuñi Ernesto auch dessen bester Freund George, ein Navajo, verschwindet, wird Leaphorn hinzugezogen. Die beiden Jungen waren fasziniert von den Ritualen des Zuñi-Volkes und deren rachsüchtigen Göttern. Die aber, so heißt es, zeigen sich nur jenen, denen der Tod seine Aufwartung macht.

This superb collection of nine detective stories focuses on the police procedural genre where crime investigation takes on a sense of reality.

Joe Leaphorn, tenente della polizia tribale, è chiamato a indagare sul brutale omicidio di un vecchio e di una sedicenne navajo. È un caso che ricorda bene, perché sembra sfuggire a ogni logica: gli agenti dell’FBI e del Bureau of Indian Aff airs che se ne sono occupati tre mesi prima non sono riusciti a individuare un colpevole e men che meno a ipotizzare un movente plausibile. L’unica testimone, un’anziana sciamana cieca chiamata Donna che Ascolta, che ha parlato di stregoni e spiriti inquieti e di un essere malvagio che è stato sguinzagliato sulla terra, non è stata giudicata credibile.