The Shape Shifter
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“And she said, ‘Well, young man, it sure took you a long time to do it.’”
About the Author
TONY HILLERMAN is a former president of the Mystery Writers of America and has received its Edgar and Grand Master Awards. His other honors include the Los Angeles Times’ Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement, the Center for the American Indian’s Ambassador Award, the Silver Spur Award for the best novel set in the West, and the Navajo Tribe’s Special Friend Award. He lives with his wife in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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The Spell of New Mexico
Talking Mysteries (with Ernie Bulow)
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Indian Country (photos by Bela Kalman)
Kilroy Was There (photos by Frank Kessler)
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Credits
Jacket design and illustration by Peter Thorpe
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE SHAPE SHIFTER. Copyright © 2006 by Tony Hillerman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © OCTOBER 2006 ISBN: 9780061801969
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hillerman, Tony.
The shape shifter / Tony Hillerman.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Leaphorn, Joe, Lt. (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Chee, Jim (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 3. Indian reservation police—Fiction. 4. Police—New Mexico—Fiction. 5. Navajo Indians—Fiction. 6. New Mexico—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.I45S45 2006
813'.54—dc22 2005052602
ISBN-10: 0-06-056345-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-056345-5
06 07 08 09 10
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