Most Popular Books by Tony Hillerman

Story Collection: Skinwalkers--A Thief of Time--Talking God.

As readers of Tony Hillerman''s detective novels know, he is a skilled interpreter of southwestern Indian cultures. In this book, first published in 1972, he recounts a Zuni myth first recorded a century ago by the anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing. Hillerman''s version of the story, written to be read by children ten years old and up, will have equal appeal for adults with an interest in Native American culture. In our society, Hillerman explains, this would be called a ''Bible story.'' Like stories based on the Old Testament, this narrative is intended to teach both the history and morality of a people. It tells the consequences of a drought in which Zuni crops were ruined and the tribe was forced to accept charity from neighboring Hopis.

Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexico ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zuñi people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn’s already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, kill again.

The mishandling of a murder scene places Navajo Tribal Police sergeant Jim Chee on the bad side of the FBI and brings ex-lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement into an old crime he hoped to forget.

A photo-book that explores "Indian Country" in New Mexico and Arizona with Tony Hillerman''s text and Béla Kalman''s photos.

First there was the trouble at Saint Bonaventure boarding school. A teacher is dead, a boy is missing, and a councilwoman has put a lot of pressure on Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee to find her grandson. Sitting on a rooftop watching sacred clowns perform their antics in a Puebla ceremonial, Chee spots the boy. Then, suddenly, the crowd is in commotion. One of the clowns has been savagely murdered. Without a single clue, On and Leophorn must follow a serpentine trail through the Indian dons and nations, seekig the thread that links two brutal murders, a missing teenager, a bond of lobbyists trying to put a toxic dump site on Pueblo land, and an invaluable memento given to the tribes by Abraham Lincoln in a fast-paced, flawless mystery that is Hillerman at his lyrical evocative, spellbinding best.

According to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. The Second World War was documented on a huge scale by thousands of photographers and artists who created millions of pictures. Photographic companies, designated as the Signal Corps, with their squads dispersed to different battles, had the daunting task of supplying photo documentation of the war. It''s not an exaggeration to say the Signal Corps'' cameramen risked their lives to record the battles and other activities during WWII. The first photographs of the D-day landing were taken by Signal Corps photographers (already on the beach) and delivered by carrier pigeons to command headquarters in England. One such Army Signal Corps photographer was Frank Kessler. whose photographs presented here in Kilroy Was There follow the U.S. Army''s progress from the invasion of France on D-day to the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945. casualties on both sides, the liberation of Paris, the execution of spies, public humiliation of collaborators, the liberation of allied POWs and concentration camps, joyful French civilians and dejected German civilians, and everyday life for the Gls. Kessler''s photographs are of high quality and remarkable in their drama, pathos, and immediacy. Some have been previously published, but most have not. Many of the photographs are accompanied by brief cutlines written by the photographer himself. Author Tony Hillerman''s essays put these powerful photographs into historical context and contribute tremendously to the annals of war. Military historians, combat veterans, and those interested in photography will value this book.

A tribute to the American Southwest features text and photographs that explore the area''s landscape, architecture, history, and wildlife.

Native American police officer Joe Leaphorn probes the murders of an old Indian soothsayer and a young Indian girl, and ends up investigating the strange kidnapping of a group of Boy Scouts and evading a plot on his own life. (Mystery)

When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders. Movie rights sold and characters of Leaphorn and Chee licensed to Wildwood Enterprises (Robert Redford''s production company). Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Sergent Jim Chee is faced with a complex murder to solve when a victim stripped of identity is found in his jurisdiction. The FBI snatches custody of the case, leaving Chee to wonder what the victim was doing before his death.

Kriminalroman om navajo-betjenten Jim Chees'' arbejde med opklaring af mordet på en kollega. Indianernes tradition og kultur viser sig at være væsentlige brikker i puslespillet

Three novels all featuring the Navaho police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn in western settings.