Item Specifics - Audiobooks
Author: Tony Hillerman Format: Cassette
Publisher: Harperaudio Length: Unabridged
ISBN-10: 0694523488 Condition: Like New
ISBN-13: 9780694523481
Category: Fiction
Sub-Category: --
Additional Information about The Wailing Wind
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Synopsis
Navajo cops Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee investigate two murders that are somehow connected to the legend of an ancient gold mine.
Details
Narrated by: George Guidall
Edition Description: Unabridged
Size
Height: 7.3 in.
Width: 4.5 in.
Thickness: 1.2 in.
Weight: 6.4 oz.
Publisher's Note
Nothing had seemed complicated about that earlier one. A con game had gone sour. A swindler had tried to sell wealthy old Wiley Denton the location of one of the West's multitude of legendary lost gold mines. Denton had shot the swindler, called the police, confessed the homicide, and done his short prison time. No mystery there. Except why did the rich man's bride vanish? The cynics said she was part of the swindle plot. She'd fled when it failed. But, alas, old Joe Leaphorn was a romantic. He believed in love, and thus the Golden Calf case still troubled him. Now, papers found in this new homicide case connect the victim to Denton and to the mythical Golden Calf Mine. The first Golden Calf victim had been there just hours before Denton killed him. And while Denton was killing him, four children trespassing among the rows of empty bunkers in the long-abandoned Wingate Ordnance Depot called in an odd report to the police. They had heard, in the wind wailing around the old buildings, what sounded like music and the cries of a woman.
The questions raised by this second Golden Calf murder draw Joe Leaphorn out of retirement and aren't answered until Leaphorn discovers what the young trespassers heard in the wailing wind
Industry reviews
"Both the title and the book's underlying theme of the universal yearning for precious things lost suit this melancholy tale about men who go tearing after fabulous gold mines and fail to see the treasures they have at home."
New York Times Book Review - Marilyn Stasio (05/05/2002)
