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The Wailing Wind
The Emperor's Pearl
The Haunted Monastery: A Judge Dee Mystery
The King's Gambit: Spqr I (SPQR)
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The Westies
Grave Secrets
The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot)
The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple S.)
Bet Your Life
Nimitz Class
Live Flesh
Shadows in Bronze
The Silver Pigs
The Silence of the Lambs
Falco on the Loose: "Last Act in Palmyra", "Time to Depart", "A Dying Light in Corduba"
The Carl Hiaasen Omnibus: "Tourist Season", "Double Whammy", "Skin Tight"
The Echo
High Five
The Franchise Affair
The Dark
The Spear
Where Roses Fade (Lydmouth Crime Series)
In a Dry Season

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loved the book
As allways, Hillerman writes a darn good tale
Gold has always brought trouble for the Dineh
"Two warriors help a dragon fly out of the mud."
An enjoyable stop on the crime scene timeline of Chee and Leaphorn...

The Wailing Wind
Tony Hillerman
Manufacturer: HarperTorch
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0061098795
Release Date: 2003-03-25

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A lost gold mine, a corpse in an abandoned pickup truck, and an eerie wailing heard on Halloween are among the delicious plot elements Tony Hillerman cooks up in his 15th novel featuring Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. The two Navajo cops, one old and one young--who originally debuted in separate series but have been collaborating for many books now--are among the most engaging, fully human characters in crime fiction. As usual, Hillerman puts them to work in a suspenseful, satisfying tale that integrates a wealth of Navajo lore plus breathtaking evocations of the American Southwest, all delivered in prose as clear, clean, and easy-flowing as a mountain stream. Longtime readers will be delighted by several developments, including a prominent role for the appealing Officer Bernadette Manuelito and a glimpse at the phlegmatic Leaphorn's testy side. But Hillerman welcomes new arrivals as well, with enough exposition to get you oriented.

Many writers have tried to follow Hillerman's trail, setting murder mysteries in Native American cultural landscapes. Many do a fine job. But, as The Wailing Wind beautifully demonstrates, there's only one Tony Hillerman. In this book he's at the top of his game. --Nicholas H. Allison

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Officer Bernadette Manuelito found the dead man slumped over in the cab of a blue pickup abandoned in a dry gulch off a dirt road—with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket ... and a tobacco tin nearly filled with tracer gold. It's her initial mishandling of the scene that spell trouble for her supervisor, Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police—but it's the echoes of a long ago crime that call the legendary former Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement. Years earlier, Leaphorn followed the trail of a beautiful, young, and missing wife to a dead end, and his failure has haunted him ever since. But ghosts never sleep in these high, lonely Southwestern hills. And the twisted threads of craven murders past and current may finally be coming together, thanks to secrets once moaned in torment on the desert wind.

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loved the book.......2007-01-28

I love the fact that this is a series of books with the same people. very good reading.

As allways, Hillerman writes a darn good tale.......2006-04-07

Time goes on and the protagonists Leaphorn and Chee are back for one more puzzling crime. Bernadette Manuelito has messed up a crime scene and Jim Chee is upset with her about it. Leaphorn is finding leads even though he is supposedly retired. The stories of Chee and Leaphorn weave together in a now predictable arc that has pretty much been used in every single Hillerman novel. But in the end, its nice to meet up with two interesting and engaging characters and its easy to overlook a tired plot device.

I have never understood why Hillerman didn't stretch his imagination a little more with these books. The strengths are 100% in the characters and the evocative interactions they have with one another. The mystery is just background noise after a while and takes a second seat to the Navaho country that unfolds throughout every book. I am allways reminded of 'Murder She Wrote' and how Angela Landsburry stumbels across one murder after another and how they are all wrapped up in similar regards. This is in my mind the only thing that holds Hillerman back from being a true master of his craft.

Gold has always brought trouble for the Dineh.......2006-03-06

Bernie is no longer feeling like the greenest rookie of the Navajo Tribal Police. She is finding Jim Chee hard to understand. She runs into an unconscious or dead man in a truck and calls it in. An ambulance is to arrive in less than an hour. It seems that the dead man is the nephew of a sheriff and that he had been killed by rifle shot.

Jim Chee feels incompetent around his former boss, Joe Leaphorn. Chee is not popular with the FBI. The FBI has been called into the investigation. The FBI is finding a problem with the crime scene conduct of Bernie Manuelito. She did not ascertain the cause of death. Cultural factors mitigated against her touching and moving the body. Bernie finds stickers and seed pods on the pants legs of the victim and seeks the advice of her uncle who is a sort of amateur ethnobiologist.

It seems that the victim had read records on ethnology and gold prospecting. An earlier murder may have been related to gold prospecting. Joe Leaphorn, now retired, believes that the earlier murder had not been solved properly. Bernie locates the site of the gold panning. Next she is shot at by a rifleman. Shooting at a cop is felony. Bernie calls Jim Chee to give him the probable location of the murder. She finds out that she has not been suspended from the force as she had believed.

Chee is rattled and forgets to apologize to Bernie for being so abrupt. Joe Leaphorn is contacted by Denton, the alleged murderer in the first incident, who asks him to find his missing wife. Denton asserts that his young and beautiful wife did love him. In gambling it is called looking for tells, signs, given off by the other players. In the oil lease business, and Denton was successful in it, a person has to have scepticism. In the adventure Jim Chee is falling in love with Bernadette Manuelito. In the end Bernie wants to get another job where she is not arresting people, but helping them.

"Two warriors help a dragon fly out of the mud.".......2005-10-28

Rookie Navaho police officer Bernadette Manuelito is making her round when she spots what looks to be an abandoned truck. Upon closer inspection she finds what appears to be a drunk sleeping it off in the seat. Yep you guessed it when she touched him he was cold, dead cold.

All of our old palls from previous novels converge on the seen that turn out to be a homicide as the individual was shot in the back.

As the story progresses we get the thing that makes Hillerman, Hillerman; there are graphic descriptions of the landscape and weather. We also get a small indoctrination into the Navaho way as a shaman and an old man are interrogated. Yes and the is also a love interest or two as scene mostly through the eves of Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee, and suspect Wiley Denton of who seems to have misplaced his wife..

I suggest that just before you read this or while you are reading this that you also have a copy of the book "Hillerman Country: A Journey Through the Southwest with Tony Hillerman" It is a book filled with the pictures of the areas mentioned in this book (Including the torques mountain.)

You can tell that this book was written later on the series because the characters refer back to earlier times and other misters. The references are casual enough that if you had not read the other books you would not notice them.

As with most Hillerman novels the answer to the main riddle is usually immediately or soon figured out so we have fun finding out how long it will take the characters to catch up. Many a time different characters have clues and do not compare in time to act.

An enjoyable stop on the crime scene timeline of Chee and Leaphorn..........2005-08-01

I am kind of working my way back through Hillerman's books as there have been many that I have not read, and I forgot how much I enjoy his writing. Chee's newest deputy (and female interest) finds an overturned truck in the desert, and makes the wrong assumption that the dead person in the truck is just another drunken Indian who died in an alcohol-related traffic accident or from exposure due to drinking. Even members of our own 'communities' tend to be guilty of accepting the stereotypes given to us by society at large...and Bernie makes an erroneous assumption that could cost her her job.

Chee and Leaphorn become involved when this death is found to be tied in with a cold case that was never solved. A man is killed and his killer confesses to the crime. The killer's wife may or may not have been involved (this is never determined) but she is never seen again through all of Leaphorn's long career as a chief of the Navajo Tribal Police. When the connection between the dead man in the truck and the missing woman resurfaces, the killer is finally free after serving his lengthy sentence. And he wants Leaphorn to find his long lost wife. Leaphorn isn't sure whether this man is being truthful about his wife's disappearance, or whether he is merely trying to coverup another murder he has not been responsible for.

The legends and stories of the Indians in the Four Corners Area of the U.S. are numerous and intertwined, and they make for good reading. I've always been a fan of legends and myths. I think I read all the Greek, Roman, and Norse/Celtic myths by the time I was 16. So finding a writer like Hillerman who can weave in those myths and legends with current happenings and mysteries really fills the time I allot myself for enjoyable reading (versus reading done to do a paper or for classwork, or for bioethical work).

This is a deeply sad story...one that leaves all parties marked with sadness. It leaves the old killer with the recognition that his own selfishness and greediness, robbed him of the only thing worth anything in his life...and Leaphorn realizes this. Chee is forced to rethink his feelings towards his deputy, Bernie Manuelito...whether to treat her as his deputy or as a person, and what he needs to do to free himself of the predicament he finds himself in when he discovers he has feelings towards this young woman. Actually, the young woman is taught a means to fix the predicament for both of them by Lieutenant Leaphorn.

As usual, Hillermans paints the beauty of the area well, and his characterization is right on target. A truely enjoyable series of mysteries. I intend to go through every single on of his books this time!

Karen Sadler

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"Two warriors help a dragon fly out of the mud."

The Wailing Wind
Tony Hillerman
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"Two warriors help a dragon fly out of the mud.".......2005-07-28

Select Editions Reader's Digest: Step Ball Change; the Stone Monkey; the Wailing Wind; the Smoke Jumper (2002) (vol. 262)

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Select Editions Reader's Digest: Step Ball Change; the Stone Monkey; the Wailing Wind; the Smoke Jumper (2002) (vol. 262)
jeanne ray; jeffery deaver; tony hillerman; nicholas evans
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Reader's Digest Select Editions: Step-Ball-Change, The Stone Monkey, The Wailing Wind, The Smoke Jumper (Vol 4)

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Reader's Digest Select Editions: Step-Ball-Change, The Stone Monkey, The Wailing Wind, The Smoke Jumper (Vol 4)
Meanne Ray , Jeffery Deaver , Tony Hillerman , and Nicholas Evans
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4 condensed books by wellknown authors

The Wailing Wind/Step Ball Change (Reader's Digest Select Editions in Large Type, Volume 121: 2002)

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The Wailing Wind, A Tale of Love and Obsession

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The Wailing Wind, A Tale of Love and Obsession
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THE WAILING WIND, A TALE OF LOVE AND OBSESSION,is an intriguing story of the strange relationship that exists between Henry Shane and Edith Miller and the challenges they face in their quest for love and security in the deteriorating community of Sinclair in the Coal Region of Pennsylvania.It is the life of Edith Miller, a wanton woman, who is obsessed with sex, and Henry Shane, an immoral man who endured the pain and agony of the Korean War and the ordeal of confinement at Pak's Palace, a prisoner of war camp near Pyongyang, North Korea.The strange love obsession between Henry Shane and Edith Miller begins during World War II and reaches a climax when Henry Shane returns to Sinclair from the Korean War as a crippled and highly decorated soldier.They are cognizant of their many immoral activities of the past. Yet, they agree to go from immorality to reconciliation and finally are united in marriage, but are not aware of the wailing wind that will continue to torment and plague them for the remaining days of their life. The emphasis is on the social and economic environment that once existed in a typical coal mining community during the pre and post Korean War era, as well as those men and woman of various ethnic groups it has touched and changed.

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THE WAILING WIND
HILLERMAN
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Step-Ball-Change... The Stone Monkey... The Smoke Jumper... The Wailing Wind... (READER'S DIGEST SELECT EDITIONS, Volume 4)
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"Two warriors help a dragon fly out of the mud."

The Wailing Wind
Tony Hillerman
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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"Two warriors help a dragon fly out of the mud.".......2005-11-29

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