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Mystery Series at Ames Public Library

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Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman has written 19 mystery novels starring Detective Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police, and three have been adapted for television by PBS. View them in the order given to see the evolution and development of the ongoing characters.

  • Skinwalkers  (DVD DRAMA SKI)  97 min. 
    The Navajo Tribal Police investigate the murder of a medicine man and find a partially-completed pictograph. The arrow used in the killing has a tip of human bone, a sign that a Navajo spirit, or skinwalker, is at work.

  • Coyote Waits  (DVD DRAMA COY)  107 min. 
    Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy.

  • A Thief of Time  (DVD DRAMA THI)  95 min. 
    In a backdrop of Navajo lore, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee delve into illegal archaeological excavations, purloined pots, and slain pot hunters.
 

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