The Ghostway
by Hillerman, Tony
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0575037245
- ISBN 13
- 9780575037243
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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Synopsis
Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.A photo sends Officer Chee on an odyssey of murder and revenge that moves from an Indian hogan to a deadly healing ceremony.Old Joseph Joe sees it all, Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks. This is enough to send Tribal Policeman Jim Chee after a killer . . . and on an odyssey of murder and revenge that moves from an Indian hogan and its trapped ghost, to the dark underbelly of L.A., to a healing ceremony whose cure could be death.
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- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000005
- Title
- The Ghostway
- Author
- Hillerman, Tony
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0575037245
- ISBN 13
- 9780575037243
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Pages
- 184
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern and Hypermodern Fiction;
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