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Skeleton man

ISBN: 006056346X
ISBN: 0060563443
ISBN: 9780060563448
ISBN: 9780061967795
Physical Description: print 241 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition: 1st edition.
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 2004.

Hillerman, Tony. (Author).

Summary: Joe Leaphorn, former Navajo tribal police lieutenant, is not a happy retiree. So when his successor asks him to look into how a young Hopi named Billy Tuve came by a valuable diamond the boy tried to pawn for a fraction of its worth, Joe finds himself involved in a five decade old mystery. It dates back to a plane crash in the Grand Canyon, one that took the life of a man whose putative daughter also has an interest in the diamond; it could lead her to her father's remains, from which she hopes to extract enough DNA to establish her birthright. For good measure, Hillerman adds a couple of villains determined to beat her to the site of the crash, a cache of other diamonds long since given up for lost in the Canyon's watery depths, and a Hopi ritual that's kept the site secret for years.