The Fallen Man (Joe Leaphorn Novels)

mass market paperback, 320 pages

English language

Published Oct. 1, 1997 by HarperTorch.

ISBN:
978-0-06-109288-6
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OCLC Number:
37779342

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Sprawled on the ledge under the peak of Ship Rock mountain for 11 years lies an unknown body, now only bones. At Canyon de Chelly, three hundred miles across the Navajo reservation, a sniper shoots an old canyon guide who had always walked that pollen path in peace. At his home in Window Rock, Joe Leaphorn, newly retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, connects skeleton and sniper and remembers an old puzzle he could never solve. At his office in Shiprock, Acting Lt. Jim Chee is too busy to take much interest in the case until it hits too close to home. Human bones lie on a ledge under the peak of Ship Rock mountain, the remains of a murder victim undisturbed for more than a decade. Three hundred miles across the Navajo reservation, a harmless old canyon guide is felled by a sniper's bullet. Joe Leaphorn, recently retired from …

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Subjects

  • Romance
  • Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
  • Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Fiction
  • Mystery & Detective - Series
  • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
  • Literary