Then he earned a Masters degree and taught journalism from 1966 to. Later, he worked as a journalist from 1948 to 1962. Chee is described physically from Leaphorn's point. Tony Hillerman, who was born in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma, was a decorated combat veteran from World War II, serving as a mortarman in the 103rd Infantry Division and earning the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart. The attempt on his life precipitates the investigation that brings him together with Leaphorn to work on the same case. A police officer whose interest in his heritage is so strong that he is learning to perform a complicated Navajo ceremonial sing, Chee ironically is mistaken for a skinwalker and nearly killed. Jim Chee also appears in his own set of early Hillerman novels. Many of their cases were the usualmurder, assault, robbery, missing personsand were solved through clues, logical deduction, and sudden bursts of intuition. A symbol of Leaphorn's legendary eccentricity and rationalism, the map proves invaluable when it reveals connections between three seemingly unrelated killings. JBy Neil Nyren Tony Hillerman wrote police procedurals, but these were no ordinary police and no ordinary procedures. Described in detail is Leaphorn's corkboard-mounted office map of "Indian Country" with his written annotations and the colored pins with which he marks crime locations. Although Joe Leaphorn dominates three earlier novels - TheBlessing Way (1970), Dance Hall of the Dead (1973), and Listening Woman (1977) - Hillerman adds still more depth to his characterization of Leaphorn in Skinwalkers.
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