Hunting Badger.

TONY HILLERMAN

Publication: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1999, New York

First edition. Signed on the title page by Tony Hillerman. Plus an original full-color drawing by artist Ernest Franklin on the half title page and signed by him. Fine in fine dust jacket. Slipcase. Navajo Tribal Police officers, Sgt. Jim Chee and Lt. Joe Leaphorn. Three men stage a raid on the Ute tribe's gambling casino. They kill a policeman, wound another, and disappear into the mountains. The FBI is called in and determines that the wounded deputy sheriff is their suspect. Chee and Leaphorn investigate and see a pattern connecting this crime with those of the Ute hero-bandit from days gone by. Laid-in loosely is a greeting card signed by both Ernie Franklin and book publisher Ernie Bulow. Bulow was a prominent promoter of Franklin's work and especially the drawings in Hillerman's tribal mysteries.

Inventory Number: 50665