Annotation
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 Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuni. 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 rights of the Zuni people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn's already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice ... or, worse still, to kill again. Performed by George Guidall Enhanced CD: CD features an interactive program which can be viewed on your computer, including: a photo galary, an author Q & A and a 35 years of excellence timeline.
Awards
1974 Edgar Awards (Edgar Allan Poe Awards)
Characters
| Name | Leaphorn, Joe |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupations | Police lieutenant |
| Tribal policeman | |
| Traits | Widower |
| Navajo | |
| Native American | |
| Genre | Mystery --Detective, Professional --Police procedural Fiction |
| Topics | Missing children Zuni Indians Navajo Indians Native American rituals |
| Setting | Arizona Reservation Desert Archaeological dig |
| Series | ||
| Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mystery | ||
| 1 | The Blessing way | |
| 2 | Dance hall of the dead | |
| 3 | Listening woman | |
| 4 | People of darkness | |
| 5 | The Dark wind | |
| 6 | The Ghostway | |
| 7 | Skinwalkers | |
| 8 | A Thief of time | |
| 9 | Talking God | |
| 10 | Coyote waits | |
| 11 | Sacred clowns | |
| 12 | The Fallen man | |
| 13 | The First eagle | |
| 14 | Hunting badger | |
| 15 | The Wailing wind | |
| 16 | The Sinister pig | |
| 17 | Skeleton man | |
| 18 | The Shape shifter | |