A Thief of Time (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tony Hillerman
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Police, 1980’s, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Detectives, Mysteries, New Mexico, Southwest, Anthropology or anthropologists, Archaeology or archaeologists
- Locales: New Mexico
A Thief of Time is the eighth novel in the series of Leaphorn and Chee mysteries. The phrase “a thief of time” refers to an unscrupulous pot hunter who steals pots from Native American sacred ruins for very lucrative rewards. As the novel reveals, old pots go for exorbitant sums: Leaphorn reads an auction catalog advertising a burial pot for more than thirty-eight thousand dollars.
When an anthropologist disappears, Leaphorn investigates. When a backhoe disappears, Chee is on the case. The two separate cases seem to coincide when it turns out that Dr. Eleanor...
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