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Author Name: Hillerman, Tony
Title: The Wailing Wind
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Type: Gold Paper-Covered Boards
Edition: First Edition Stated/1st Printing Stated
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. HarperCollins Publishers 2002
ISBN Number: 0060194448 / 9780060194444
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 008575
Hardcopy with gold paper-covered boards, blue cloth spine, gold printing on spine, is in NEAR FINE condition. Signed by author on title page. Brodart-wrapped DJ, NOT price-clipped, is NEAR FINE. 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 homicde 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. Bernie Manuelito uses her knowledge of Navajo country, its tribal traditions, and her friendshp with a famous old medicine man to unravel the first knot of this puzzle, with Jim Chee putting aside his distaste for the FBI to help her. But the questions raised by this second Golden Calf murder aren't answered until Leaphorn solves the puzzle left by the first one and discovers what the young trespassers heard in the wailing wind.
CHEE JIM FICTITIOUS CHARACTER FICTION INDIANS NORTH AMERICA LEAPHORN JOE LT NEW MEXICO MYSTERY DETECTIVE GENERAL
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