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This page lists novels and non-fiction by Tony Hillerman and biographical and critical books about Tony Hillerman.

Cover images are, where possible, of the first US edition and a recent paperback or digital edition.

After Tony Hillerman's death more Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novels were written by Hillerman's daughter Anne Hillerman

By Tony Hillerman:
- novels, story collections
- omnibus editions
- non-fiction / autobiography

Edited by Tony Hillerman:
- anthologies / non-fiction

About Tony Hillerman:
- biographical / critical

The Blessing Way

Tony Hillerman

1970

A Joe Leaphorn novel.

"Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch is leading him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder."

The Fly on the Wall

Tony Hillerman

1971

"Ace reporter John Cotton is a fly on the wall, seeing all, hearing all, and keeping out of sight. But the game changes when he finds his best friend’s corpse sprawled on the marble floor of the central rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Suddenly Cotton knows too much about a scandal centered around a senatorial candidate, a million-dollar scam, and a murder. And he hears the pursuing footsteps of powerful people who have something to hide . . . and a willingness to kill to keep their secrets hidden."

The Boy Who Made Dragonfly: A Zuni Myth

Tony Hillerman

1972

A children's book.

"As readers of Tony Hillerman's detective novels know, he is a skilled interpreter of southwestern Indian cultures. In this book, first published in 1972, he recounts a Zuni myth first recorded a century ago by the anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing. Hillerman's version of the story, written to be read by children ten years old and up, will have equal appeal for adults with an interest in Native American culture. 'In our society,' Hillerman explains, 'this would be called a 'Bible story.' Like stories based on the Old Testament, this narrative is intended to teach both the history and morality of a people.' It tells the consequences of a drought in which Zuni crops were ruined and the tribe was forced to accept charity from neighboring Hopis."

Dance Hall of the Dead

Tony Hillerman

1973

A Joe Leaphorn novel.

"Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zuñi people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn's already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, to kill again."

Listening Woman

Tony Hillerman

1978

A Joe Leaphorn novel.

"The state police and FBI are baffled when an old man and a teenage girl are brutally murdered. The blind Navajo Listening Woman speaks of ghosts and of witches. But Lieutenant Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police knows his people as well as he knows cold-blooded killers. His incredible investigation carries him from a dead man's secret to a kidnap scheme, to a conspiracy that stretches back more than one hundred years. Leaphorn arrives at the threshold of a solution—and is greeted with the most violent confrontation of his career."

People of Darkness

Tony Hillerman

1980

A Jim Chee novel.

"A dying man is murdered. A rich man's wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. A series of odd, inexplicable events is haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone into the Bad Country of the merciless Southwest, where nothing good can survive . . . including Chee. Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and blood has nourished. And only one man will walk away."

The Dark Wind

Tony Hillerman

1982

A Jim Chee novel.

"The corpse had been “scalped,” its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this case, a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee’s fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Navajo sorcery and white man’s greed. And it will sweep away everything unless Chee can somehow change the weather."

The Ghostway

Tony Hillerman

1984

A Jim Chee novel.

"Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks. This is all Tribal Policeman Jim Chee needs to set him off on an odyssey that moves from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L.A. to an ancient healing ceremony where death is the cure, and into the dark heart of murder and revenge."

Skinwalkers

Tony Hillerman

1986

A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novel.

"Three shotgun blasts rip through the side of Officer Jim Chee’s trailer as the Navajo Tribal Policeman sleeps. He survives, but the inexplicable attack has raised disturbing questions about a lawman once beyond reproach. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn wonders why Chee was a target and what connection the assault has to a series of gruesome murders that has been plaguing the reservation. But the investigation is leading them both into a nightmare of ritual, witchcraft, and blood . . . and into the dark and mystical domain of evil beings of Navajo legend, the “skinwalkers."

A Thief of Time

Tony Hillerman

1988

A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novel.

"At a moonlit Indian ruin—where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground in the name of profit—a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history-altering discovery. At an ancient burial site, amid stolen goods and desecrated bones, two corpses are discovered, shot by bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist. There are modern mysteries buried in despoiled ancient places. And as blood flows all too freely, Navajo Tribal Policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold-hearted killer."

Talking God

Tony Hillerman

1989

A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novel.

"Reunited by a grave robber and a corpse, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is trying to determine the identity of a murder victim, while Officer Jim Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors. But with each peeled-back layer, it becomes shockingly clear that these two cases are mysteriously connected—and that others are pursuing Highhawk, with lethal intentions. And the search for answers to a deadly puzzle is pulling Leaphorn and Chee into the perilous arena of superstition, ancient ceremony, and living gods."

Coyote Waits

Tony Hillerman

1990

A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novel.

"The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez—a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect's refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune. But the hungry and mythical trickster Coyote is waiting, as always, in the shadows to add a strange and deadly new twist."

The Perfect Murder: Five Great Mystery Writers Create the Perfect Crime

Lawrence Block, Sarah Caudwell, Tony Hillerman, Peter Lovesey and Donald E. Westlake

Editor: Jack Hitt

1991

A collaborative novel in which five crime fiction authors provide a character with methods for committing the perfect murder.

Sacred Clowns

Tony Hillerman

1993

A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novel.

" During a kachina ceremony at the Tano Pueblo, the antics of a dancing koshare fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before. Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe that answers lie in the sacred clown's final cryptic message to the Tano people. But to decipher it, the two Navajo policemen may have to delve into closely guarded tribal secrets—on a sinister trail of blood that links a runaway, a holy artifact, corrupt Indian traders, and a pair of dead bodies."

Finding Moon

Tony Hillerman

1995

"A phone call in 1975 changes Moon Mathias’s life forever, as a voice on the line tells him his dead brother’s baby daughter—a child Moon never knew existed—is waiting for him in Southeast Asia. A task he believes beyond his meager talents is pulling Moon to Vietnam. In a chilling world of mystery and silence, disguise and deception, he’ll risk everything for the sake of one little girl—and discover a Moon Mathias who’s a better man than he ever thought he could be."

The Fallen Man

Tony Hillerman

1996

A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novel.

"Human bones lie on a ledge under the peak of Ship Rock mountain, the remains of a murder victim undisturbed for more than a decade. Three hundred miles across the Navajo reservation, a harmless old canyon guide is felled by a sniper's bullet. Joe Leaphorn, recently retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, believes the shooter and the skeleton are somehow connected and recalls a chilling puzzle he was previously unable to solve. But Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee is too busy to take an interest in a dusty cold case . . . until the reborn violence of it hits much too close to home."

The First Eagle

Tony Hillerman

1998

A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novel.

"For acting Lieutenant Jim Chee, the murder of a Navajo Tribal Police officer seems like an open-and-shut case when he discovers a Hopi poacher huddled over the victim's butchered corpse. However, Chee's newly retired predecessor, Joe Leaphorn, believes otherwise. Hired to find a missing biologist who was searching for the key to a virulent hidden plague—and who vanished in the same area and on the same day the policeman was slain—Leaphorn suspects both events are somehow connected. And the reported sighting of a skinwalker - a Navajo witch - has Leaphorn and Chee seeking answers to a deadly riddle in a dark place where superstition and science collide."

Hunting Badger

Tony Hillerman

1999

A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novel.

"Three men raid the gambling casino run by the Ute nation and then disappear into the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. When the FBI, with its helicopters and high-tech equipment, focuses on a wounded deputy sheriff as a possible suspect, Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee and his longtime colleague, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, launch an investigation of their own. Chee sees a dangerous flaw in the federal theory; Leaphorn sees intriguing connections to the exploits of a legendary Ute bandit-hero. And together, they find themselves caught up in the most perplexing - and deadly - criminal manhunt of their lives."

Buster Mesquite's Cowboy Band

Tony Hillerman

2001

A children's book.

"Buster Mesquite's Cowboy Band give a quirky southwestern retelling of a classic children's tale, with a much more satisfactory ending. Delightful illustrations by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin, who has been illustrating Tony Hillerman's Navajo policemen for many years. Visual puns and hidden jokes make Franklin's drawings a delight to revisit over and over, always with a fresh sense of discovery."

The Wailing Wind

Tony Hillerman

2002

A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novel.

"Officer Bernadette Manuelito found the dead man slumped over in the cab of a blue pickup abandoned in a dry gulch off a dirt road, with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket . . . and a tobacco tin nearby filled with tracer gold. It's her initial mishandling of the scene that spells trouble for her supervisor, Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, but it's the echoes of a long-ago crime that call the legendary former Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement. Years earlier, Leaphorn followed the trail of a beautiful, young, and missing wife to a dead end, and his failure has haunted him ever since. But ghosts never sleep in these high, lonely Southwestern hills. And the twisted threads of craven murders past and current may finally be coming together, thanks to secrets once moaned in torment on the desert wind."

The Sinister Pig

Tony Hillerman

2003

A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novel.

"Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is troubled by the nameless corpse discovered just inside his jurisdiction, at the edge of the Jicarilla Apache natural gas field. More troubling still is the FBI’s insistence that the Bureau take over the case, calling the unidentified victim’s death a 'hunting accident'. But if a hunter was involved, Chee knows the prey was intentionally human. This belief is shared by the 'Legendary Lieutenant' Joe Leaphorn, who once again is pulled out of retirement by the possibility of serious wrongs being committed against the Navajo nation by the Washington bureaucracy. Yet it is former policewoman Bernadette Manuelito, recently relocated to the Border Patrol at the U.S.–Mexico line, who possibly holds the key to a fiendishly twisted conspiracy of greed, lies, and murder."

Skeleton Man

Tony Hillerman

2004

A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novel.

"Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simple-minded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. He needs help and Chee, and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito, decide to provide it. Proving the kid's innocence requires finding the remains of one of 172 people whose bodies were scattered among the cliffs of the Grand Canyon in an epic airline disaster 50 years in the past. That passenger had handcuffed to his wrist an attaché case filled with a fortune in—one of which seems to have turned up in the robbery. The daughter of the long-dead diamond dealer is also seeking his body. So is a most unpleasant fellow willing to kill to make sure she doesn't succeed. These two tense tales collide deep in the canyon at the place where an old man died trying to build a cult reviving reverence for the Hopi guardian of the Underworld."

The Shape Shifter

Tony Hillerman

2006

A Joe Leaphorn novel.

"Retirement has never sat well with former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. Now the ghosts of a still-unsolved case are returning to haunt him, reawakened by a photograph in a magazine spread of a one-of-a-kind Navajo rug, a priceless work of woven art that was supposedly destroyed in a suspicious fire many years earlier. The rug, commemorating one of the darkest and most terrible chapters in American history, was always said to be cursed, and now the friend who brought it to Leaphorn's attention has mysteriously gone missing. With newly wedded officers Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito just back from their honeymoon, the legendary ex-lawman is on his own to pick up the threads of a crime he'd once thought impossible to untangle. And they're leading him back into a world of lethal greed, shifting truths, and changing faces, where a cold-blooded killer still resides."

The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries

Tony Hillerman

1989

Three Joe Leaphorn novels.

An omnibus edition that combines the three novels: The Blessing Way; Dance Hall of the Dead; and Listening Woman.

The Jim Chee Mysteries

Tony Hillerman

1990

Three Jim Chee novels.

An omnibus edition that combines the three novels: People of Darkness; The Dark Wind; and Ghostways.

Leaphorn & Chee

Tony Hillerman

1992

Three Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novels.

An omnibus edition that combines the three novels: Skinwalker; A Thief of Time; and Talking God.

The Leaphorn & Chee Novels

Tony Hillerman

2005

Three Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novels.

An omnibus edition that combines the three novels: Skinwalkers; A Thief of Tim; and Coyote Waits.

Leaphorn, Chee, and More

Tony Hillerman

2005

Three Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novels.

An omnibus edition that combines the three novels: The Fallen Man; The First Eagle; and Hunting Badger.

The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other Indian Country Affairs

Tony Hillerman

1973

The title for the 2001 edition was 'The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other True Stories of the Southwest'. The 2012 edition was 'The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other True Stories'. The new edition in 2012 includes an introduction by Anne Hillerman and photography by Don Strel.

"This classic collection of nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico by the great Tony Hillerman remains a must read for anyone looking to understand the state’s unique charm. The engaging pieces in The Great Taos Bank Robbery unveil the life and magic one experiences in the Land of Enchantment."

• The Great Taos Bank Robbery
• The Navajo Who Had So Many Friends He Couldn't Get No Wire Strung
• The Very Heart Of Our Country
• The Mountain On The Guardrail At Exit 164B
• We All Fall Down
• The Messenger Birds
• The Conversion Of Cletus Xywanda
• The Apache Who Wouldn't Be Missed
• The Hunt For The Lost American
• How Quemado Got Quemado
• Las Trampas
• Black Jack Ketchum And The Sixteen Faithful Bartenders
• Othello In Union County
• The Committee And The Mule Deer
• Quijote In Rio Arriba County
• Keeping Secrets From The Russians
• Mr. Luna's Lazarus Act

New Mexico

Tony Hillerman

Charles H. Belding

1974

"In this collection of landscapes by David Muench & illuminating words by Tony Hillerman, New Mexico's many & varied contrasts unfold in a unique blend that is her mysterious beauty - and a grandeur that is our natural heritage."

Rio Grande

Tony Hillerman

Charles H. Belding

1975

"In this spectacular volume, the scenes and seasons of the Rio Grande are captured by the lens of Robert Reynolds, one of America's preeminent nature photographers, and the pen of Tony Hillerman, an award-winning novelist noted for his skill at evoking the mood of landscape."

Colloquium On Crime: Eleven Renowned Mystery Writers Discuss Their Work

Editor: Robin W. Winks

1986

Tony Hillerman is one of the contributing authors.

The other contributing authors are: Robert Barnard, Rex Burns, K. C. Constantine, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Michael Gilbert, Donald Hamilton, Joseph Hansen, James McClure, Reginald Hill, and Robert B. Parker.

Indian Country: America's Sacred Land

Tony Hillerman

Northland Press

1987

"With characteristic style and grace, Tony Hillerman describes the intangible yet powerful aura of the Southwest, America's sacred land, while photographer Bela Kalman captures its beauty through his color photographs. The book is a tribute to a land where the land's spirits are as real as it inhabitants."

Words, Weather and Wolfmen: Conversations with Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman and Ernie Bulow

1989

A limited edition publication that includes material from conversations between Hillerman and Bulow, an essay by Hillerman and a Jim Chee short story.

Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman and Ernie Bulow

1991

"Tony Hillerman discusses his craft, including his approach to plot, characterisation, and setting, and the wrinkles and twists that make his brand of fiction unique. These and other insights into how he writes emerge in an extended interview with his long-time friend and fellow author Ernie Bulow. An autobiographical piece by Hillerman details his early years in Oklahoma, first encounters with Navajo culture, and his eventual life as journalist and author. Navajo artist Ernest Franklin created twelve sketches of Hillerman characters for this book. Hillerman credits Franklin with 'showing me what Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn look like.' As an additional treat, a Jim Chee mini-mystery, 'The Witch, Yazzie, and the Nine of Clubs,' originally published in 1981 and long unavailable, is included."

New Mexico, Rio Grande and Other Essays

Tony Hillerman

Graphic Arts Center Publishing

1991

Material originally published in New Mexico (1974) and Rio Grande (1975), plus two essays not previously published in book form.

"New Mexico, Rio Grande, and Other Essays gives the reader a deeper appreciation of how Tony Hillerman sees the land he loves, as well as the places from which he draws his inspiration, and his intimate knowledge of the backgrounds upon which he casts the characters of his mysteries."

Hillerman Country: A Journey Through the Southwest

Tony Hillerman

1991

"Portrays Navajo country in the Arizona desert and describes the customs and culture of the native peoples."

Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir

Tony Hillerman

2001

"In this affectionate and unvarnished recollection of his past, Tony Hillerman looks at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author. Using the gifts of a talented novelist and reporter, Hillerman draws brilliant portrait not just of his life, but of the world around him."

Kilroy Was There: A G.I.'s War in Photographs

Photographs: Frank Kessler

Text: Tony Hillerman

2004

"When I saw Frank Kessler’s collection of photographs I was struck by how different they were from the movie-camera views I see on television. No public relations pictures here, intended to glorify battle and rally support. These were up-close snapshots of the dirty, damp, and disheveled men in the rifle companies and tank units. It was the war as they endured it, as they struggled through it from the beaches of France to the streets of Berlin until they finally won it."

Navajoland: A Native Son Shares His Legacy

LeRoy DeJolie

2005

Includes a foreword by Tony Hillerman.

"Photographer-author LeRoy DeJolie describes and shows his homeland as not only a ruggedly beautiful territory in the Four Corners region of Arizona but also as a part of his heritage and culture. His photos and stories of the Navajo way of life are intertwined as surely as strands of a rope. The book is richly illustrated with full-color landscape photography and tells stories about the ancient ways and beliefs of the Navajo people."

The Senator and the Sin Eater

William J. Buchanan

2007

Includes a foreword by Tony Hillerman.

"Seneca Falls, West Virginia, is a picturesque town. Tucked between the foothills of the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains, it lives in the shadow of the Dunning and Munroe families, mining moguls who have competed for coal in the region for generations. It is a place Joshua Chacon would rather forget. The scorned biracial stepson of the Dunning dynasty, Chacon has acquired a national reputation and a Pulitzer Prize for his books revealing political skullduggery. Drawn back to the hometown he abandoned by news of the mysterious murder of his half brother, Senator Stewart Dunning, Josh soon becomes entangled in a murder plot thick with the power politics of the ruling families of West Virginia's mining country."

All Is Beautiful All Around Me

Gerald Hausman

2011

Includes a foreword by Tony Hillerman.

"This book illuminates the traditional oral narratives of the tribe and shows how they work ceremonially as healing ways. Collectively, they also convey the origin story of The People and in addition they provide a moral code for harmonious existence with the natural world. The enlightened state of Navajo consciousness, which they call 'walking in beauty' is presented in such a way that all of us can learn to use it and live by it."

The Spell of New Mexico

Editor: Tony Hillerman

1976

"The writers whose essays make up this book used their craft and talent to try to express this, profound influence. The authors are among the many who found the spell of New Mexico in its high, clear land and sky, its proud traditions, and its people -- Indian, Spanish, and Anglo-American. Their essays capture the essence of the New Mexico experience. They are brought together and edited by Tony Hillerman - journalist, novelist, humorist, and New Mexican by adoption-who has spent twenty years trying to understand and communicate the mystique of this high, dry tag-end of the American Rockies."

• Introduction (Tony Hillerman)
• The Land of Journey's Ending (Mary Austin)
• New Mexico (Oliver La Farge)
• New Mexico Was Our Fate (Conrad Richter)
• New Mexico (D.H. Lawrence)
• The Pueblo Indians (C.G. Jung)
• A Calendar of Santa Fe (Winfield Townley Scott)
• The Unrelenting Land (John DeWitt McKee)
• "Why Albuquerque?" (Ernie Pyle)
• Old Town and New (Harvey Fergusson)
• Revista Nueva Mexicana (Lawrence Clark Powell)
• Hasta Mañana (Mary Austin)

The Best Of The West: Anthology of Classic Writing From the American West

Editor: Tony Hillerman

1991

"A sterling collection of classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction evoking the unique spirit of the West and its people, selected and introduced by one of today's premier chroniclers of the Western landscape."

• New Mexico's Mystery Stone (Dixie L. Perkins)
• The Message In The Bottle (George Winship)
• Drake's Brass Plaque (James D. Hart)
• The Real Manila Galleon)
• The Long Way Home (Meriwether Lewis)
• The Stone Thoen Found (Frank Thompson)
• Boulders Taller Than The Great Tower Of Seville (Garcia Lopez De Cardenas)
• "The Most Sublime Spectacle On Earth" (John Wesley Powell)
• Fifty Leagues Of Silver (Alonso De Benevides)
• Captain José Zúñiga's Report
• Are We Prisoners Of War? (Zebulon Montgomery Pike)
• The Russians In California (William A. Slacum)
• Ishi, The Last One Left Alive (Theodora Kroeber)
• The Man Who Killed The Deer (Frank Waters)
• The Pacifist Warrior (Jack Schaefer)
• The Way To Rainy Mountain (N. Scott Momaday)
• Colter's Run (H.M. Chittenden)
• "Can You Blot Out Those Stars?" (Myron Angel)
• "I Will Fight No More Forever"
• The Murder Of Narbona (Franc Johnson Newcomb)
• Barboncito's Plea
• The Hogan (Gladys Reichard)
• Laughing Boy (Oliver La Farge)
• The Death Of Old Man Hat (Walter Dyk)
• The Muleteers (Max Morehead)
• Brothers Of The Light (Marta Weigle)
• Blessing The Animals (John A. Lomax)
• Ramona (Helen Hunt Jackson)
• A Santa Fe Fandango (George Frederick Ruxton)
• The Burning Bush (A.W. Whipple)
• A Twenty-Dollar Christmas Ball (Alexander Kelly Mcclure)
• Christmas In Round Valley (John Wesley Clampitt)
• "A Rather Pretentious Sod House" (Everett Dick)
• "Wuite Discouraged And Impatient For His Death ..." (George Yount)
• The Bashful Trapper (Jacob Fowler)
• "And The Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day" (Alan Bosworth)
• The $175,000 Sack Of Flower
• How Americans Get Ahead (William Shepherd)
• J.C. Penney's First Day (Norman Beasley)
• Wolf Willow (Wallace Stegner)
• The Melting Pot (Robert Laxalt)
• Basques In Nevada (Robert Laxalt)
• Nails And Whiskey (Alexander Toponce)
• Death Valley Scotty's Story (Eleanor Jordan Houston)
• Burial Customs At Fort Pierre (Thaddeus Culbertson)
• The Harvard Cowboy (Richard Trimble)
• The Spree At The End Of The Trail)
• Charlie Siringo's Flirtation (Charlie Siringo)
• "I Threw My Timid Friend A Bisquit" (Theodore Baughman)
• The Cowboy Strike (David Dary)
• The First Rodeos (Charles Nordhoff)
• The Chuck Wagon (Eugene Manlove Rhodes)
• When You Call Me That, Smile! (Owen Wister)
• The Travelling Stones, And Other Such Affairs (Duncan Emrich)
• The First Jumping Frog
• How Trout Survive Mountain Winters
• "I Am Not Aware That Anyone Has Been Born Lately" (J. Ross Browne)
• I Paint The Truth Just As It Is (J. Ross Browne)
• The Buffalo Corral And Milking Pen (James Stevens)
• The Greasewood Golf Course (Dick Wick Hall)
• The Badger Fight (Bill Oden)
• "Anything That Will Make Money"
• "Genial If Rambunctious" (Marthy "Calamity" Janes Cannary)
• How The Ski Came To Snow Country (Robert Laxalt)
• The Emperor Of California (Joshua Norton)
• Schlatter The Healer (Agnes Morley Cleaveland)
• Law West Of The Pecos (C.L. Sonnichsen)
• How Phoenix Got Its Name (Lawrence Clark Powell)
• Unlce Dick Wootton (Agnes Morley Cleaveland)
• Culture Comes To Virginia City (R.D. Miller)
• Gold Only Waiting To Be Gathered Up (Paul Horgan)
• "Something Shining In The Bottom Of The Dicth" (James W. Marshall)
• "Men Living Like Coyotes" (J. Ross Browne)
• Sutro's Tunnel
• Growing Up In Bonanza Town (John Taylor Walford)
• Boyhood At The Chloride Flat (James K. Hastings)
• The Sun River Stampede (Robert Vaughan)
• The Post-Hole Banks (J. Frank Dobie)
• There's Gems In Them Thar Hills" (Randall Henderson)
• "A Pretty Hoorah Place" (Nannie Alderson)
• Now The Prairie Life Begins! (Susan Shelby Magoffin)
• The Pregnant Private (William Gilpin)
• Great Western, The Army's Amazon (Arthur Woodward)
• Doing The Washing (Eleanor Mcgovern)
• "A Ball Put In Your Carcass" (Caroline Nichols Churchill)
• Rags To Riches To Rags (Robert Laxalt)
• And From Rags To Riches To Starvation (Marshall Sprague)
• Buscuits, Coffee And Beans (Annie D. Tallent)
• Greasy Meals, Infested With Lazy Flies (Isabella Bird)
• Contempt Of Court (Ellen Jack)
• Goldfield Booms (Anne Ellis)
• Missed Four Thousand Times (Elfego Baca)
• The Marquis De Peralta)
• "It Began With A Wrong And Outrage" (Eugene Manlove Rhodes)
• The Real Billy The Kid (Howard Bryan)
• Billy's Alive, And So Is Jesse (C.L. Sonnichsen)
• That Famous Shootout At The O.K. Corral)
• The Soldier Of Fortune (Thompson M. Turner)
• "No Complaint Was Made Against Him" (Thompson M. Turner)
• Taking Politics Seriously (Ralph Emerson Twitchell)
• The Hanging Windmill (Howard Bryan)
• More Action At Hanging Windmill (Howard Bryan)
• The Johnson County War (T.A. Larson)
• Over The Oregon Trail (Bernard Devoto)
• Thus The First Mail Was Brought On Camels (Edward F. Beale)
• Aubry's Great Ride (J. Frank Dobie)
• "Without Anything To Eat But The Dead" (Virginia Reed)
• "Goodbye, Death Valley"
• Fifteen-Hundred Hats Were Lost Yearly (Raphael Pumpelly)
• The Great Wagon-Train Swindle (William Miles)
• Hrace Greeley's Wild Ride (Artemus Ward)
• What The Travel Agent Doesn't Tell You (H.M. Chittenden)
• Cold Feet
• A Revolver Is An Admirable Tool ... (Sir Richard Burton)
• The Desert Traveler's Kit (Joseph P. Allyn)
• How Exquisitely Pleasant, How Cosy And Delightful! (James Rusling)
• The Race For Raton Pass (James Marshall)
• The Continent Is Joined (Theodore H. Hittell)
• They Do Not Drink, Fight, Or Strike (Charles Nordhoff)
• The Rawhide Railroad (George Estes)
• 185 Miles In Fifteen Hours And Twenty Minutes (Alexander Majors)
• Finally, Behind The Wheel! (Upton Sinclair)
• Steinbeck's Highway 66 (John Steinbeck)
• The Last Word From The Alamo (William Travis)
• The Mormon Battalion (James Ferguson)
• "We Have Come Amongst You" (Stephen Watts Kearny)
• Paddy Graydon's Civil War
• Custer's Last Lett Home (George Armstrong Custer)
• Mrs. Custer Hears The News (Elizabeth Custer)
• "José Maria Martín! Stand Up!
• "Stand Up, Ye Son-Of-A-Bitch" (Walker Dixon Grisso)
• Why Wilderness? (Ed Abbey)
• "The Dirty Nincompoop Who Edits That Journal"
• "To The World!!" (James W. Nesmith)
• "I Ask: What Is Life?" (Herman W. Knickerbocker)
• The Rules Of The Game (Charles Lummis)
• The Outcasts Of Poker Flat (Bret Harte)
• The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky (Stephen Crane)
• Cabin Fever (Dorothy Scarborough)
• "It Must Be Something Exciting" (Wallace Stegner)
• McTeague (Frank Norris)

The Mysterious West

Editor: Tony Hillerman

1994

"Personally chosen by acclaimed writer Tony Hillerman, the foremost chronicler of the modern west, here is a dazzling collection of extraordinary mystery tales. Included in this chilling anthology are twenty stories of suspense and deceit, all written especially for this collection. Explore the haunted and dark side of the land with some of the brightest stars in contemporary suspense."

• Forbidden Things (Marcia Muller)
• New Moon And Rattlesnakes (Wendy Hornsby)
• Coyote Peyote (Carole Nelson Douglas)
• Nooses Give (Dana Stabenow)
• Who Killed Cock Rogers? (Bill Crider)
• Caring For Uncle Henry (Robert Campbell)
• Death Of A Snowbird (J.A. Jance)
• With Flowers In Her Hair (M.D. Lake)
• The Lost Boys (William J. Reynolds)
• Tule Fog (Karen Kijewski)
• The River Mouth (Lia Matera)
• No Better Than Her Father (Linda Grant)
• Dust Devil (Rex Burns)
• A Woman's Place (D.R. Meredith)
• Postage Due (Susan Dunlap)
• The Beast In The Woods (Ed Gorman)
• Blowout In Little Man Flats (Stuart M. Kaminsky)
• Small Town Murder (Harold Adams)
• Bingo (John Lutz)
• Engines (Bill Pronzini)

The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories

Editor: Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert

1996

"In 34 stories, this anthology explores the historical development of American detective fiction over a span of 150 years - from Edgar Allan Poe in the 1840s to Marcia Muller in the 1990s. The selections represent variety in chronological period, narrative voice, geography, and milieu; and are chosen for their sheer entertainment value."

• The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)
• The Stolen Cigar Case (Bret Harte)
• The Problem of Cell 13 (Jacques Futrelle)
• The Doomdorf Mystery (Melville Davisson Post)
• Missing: Page Thirteen (Anna Katharine Green)
• The Beauty Mask (Arthur B. Reeve)
• A Jury of Her Peers (Susan Glaspell)
• The False Burton Combs (Carroll John Daly)
• The Keyboard of Silence (Clinton H. Stagg)
• A Nose for News (Richard Sale)
• Spider (Mignon G. Eberhart)
• Leg Man (Erle Stanley Gardner)
• I'll Be Waiting (Raymond Chandler)
• The Footprint in the Sky (John Dickson Carr)
• Rear Window (Cornell Woolrich)
• The Lipstick (Mary Roberts Rinehart)
• Homicide Highball (Robert Leslie Bellem)
• An Error in Chemistry (William Faulkner)
• From Another World (Clayton Rawson)
• A Daylight Adventure (T. S. Stribling)
• See No Evil (William Campbell Gault)
• Crime Must Have a Stop (Anthony Boucher)
• Small Homicide (Ed McBain)
• Guilt-Edged Blonde (Ross Macdonald)
• Christmas Party (Rex Stout)
• A Matter of Public Notice (Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
• The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln's Clue (Ellery Queen)
• Words Do Not a Book Make (Bill Pronzini)
• Christmas Is for Cops (Edward D. Hoch)
• Lucky Penny (Linda Barnes)
• The Parker Shotgun (Sue Grafton)
• Chee's Witch (Tony Hillerman)
• Benny's Space (Marcia Muller)

The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century

Editor: Tony Hillerman

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

2000

"In this essential distillation of American suspense, 100 years worth of peerless tales are collected into a volume where giants of the genre abound."

• Retrieved Reformation (O. Henry)
• Paul's Case (Willa Cather)
• Problem Of Cell 13 (Jacques Futrelle)
• Blind Man's Buff (Frederick Irving Anderson)
• Naboth's Vineyard (Melville Davisson Post)
• Jury Of Her Peers (Susan Glaspell)
• Gutting Of Couffignal (Dashiell Hammett)
• Haircut (Ring Lardner)
• Blue Murder (Wilbur Daniel Steele)
• Perfect Crime (Ben Ray Redman)
• Baby In The Icebox (James M. Cain)
• Murder (John Steinbeck)
• Sense Of Humor (Damon Runyan)
• Ransom (Pearl S. Buck)
• Red Wind (Raymond Chandler)
• Catbird Seat (James Thurber)
• Rear Window (Cornell Woolrich)
• Error In Chemistry (William Faulkner)
• Nine Mile Walk (Harry Kemelman)
• Adventure Of The President's Half Dime (Ellery Queen)
• Homesick Buick (John D. Macdonald)
• Gone Girl (Ross Macdonald)
• Moment Of Decision (Stanley Ellin)
• First Offense (Evan Hunter)
• Couple Next Door (Margaret Millar)
• Day Of The Execution (Henry Slesar)
• Terrapin (Patricia Highsmith)
• Possibility Of Evil (Shirley Jackson)
• Comforts Of Home (Flannery O'Connor)
• Good Man, Bad Man (Jerome Weidman)
• Goodbye, Pops (Joe Gores)
• Whimper Of Whipped Dogs (Harlan Ellison)
• Wager (Robert L. Fish)
• Do With Me What You Will (Joyce Carol Oates)
• Quitters, Inc. (Stephen King)
• Absence Of Emily (Jack Ritchie)
• By The Dawn's Early Light (Lawrence Block)
• Iris (Stephen Greenleaf)
• Three-Dot Po (Sara Paretsky)
• Parker Shotgun (Sue Grafton)
• Too Many Crooks (Donald E. Westlake)
• Hot Springs (James Crumley)
• Dark Snow (Brendan DuBois)
• Red Clay (Michael Malone)
• Poachers (Tom Franklin)
• Running Out Of Dog (Dennis Lehane)

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A New Omnibus of Crime

Editor: Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert

2005

"This extraordinary collection emphasizes the most exciting styles and voices in each genre, rather than taking a typical decade-by-decade approach. As a result, A New Omnibus of Crime boasts a broad range of engaging."

• The Man Who Knew How (Dorothy L. Sayers)
• The Girl With The Silver Eyes (Dashiell Hammett)
• Red Wind (Raymond Chandler)
• The Wench Is Dead (Frederic Brown)
• Gone Girl (Ross Macdonald)
• The Couple Next Door (Margaret Millar)
• By The Scruff Of The Soul (Dorothy Salisbury Davis)
• Flowers That Bloom In The Spring (Julian Symons)
• Woodrow Wilson's Necktie (Patricia Highsmith)
• Loopy (Ruth Rendell)
• Great Aunt Allie's Fly Papers (P. D. James)
• First Lead Gasser (Tony Hillerman)
• Chee's Witch (Tony Hillerman)
• Breathe Deep (Donald E. Westlake)
• Rumpole And The Bubble Reputation (John Mortimer)
• A Poison That Leaves No Trace (Sue Grafton)
• Photo Finish (Sara Paretsky)
• The Crime Of Miss Oyster Brown (Peter Lovesey)
• Red Clay (Michael Malone)
• Barking At Butterflies (Ed McBain)
• Running Out Of Dog (Dennis Lehane)
• Hostages (James Crumley)
• When The Women Come Out To Dance (Elmore Leonard)
• The Hanged Man (Ian Rankin)
• The Holly And The Poison Ivy (Catherine Aird)
• Copycat (Jeffery Deaver)
• He Loved To Go For Drives With His Father (Alexander McCall Smith)

Literature and Landscape: Writers of the Southwest

Cynthia Farah

1988

Includes a section about Tony Hillerman.

"'What role has the Southwestern landscape played in compelling you to write?' This single question, answered insightfully by 50 of the Southwest's greatest writers, plus the interrogator's compelling photographic portraits of those writers, are the heart of Cynthia Farah's unique book."

Tony Hillerman

Fred Erisman

Boise State University

1989

The Tony Hillerman Companion

Editor: Martin Greenberg

1994

"A compendium of information about the popular novelist includes a detailed synopsis of each of his books, concise sketches of his characters, a never-before-published interview, a glossary of Navajo terms and folklore, and a biographical timeline."

Tony Hillerman: A Public Life

John Sobol

1994

"The unique mix of Navajo culture and police work is the subject of John Sobol’s first-ever biography of Tony Hillerman. From his childhood spent in Oklahoma, to his journalism/ public relations career; from his return to school, to his success as a best-selling author, Tony Hillerman: A Public Life offers rare glimpses of a fascinating and highly varied life."

Tony Hillerman's Indian Country Map & Guide

Florence C. Lister

1998

"No other contemporary writer knows the Southwest like Tony Hillerman. Now, for the first time, the events and locations taken from his Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn mysteries can be traced in one of America's most majestic and haunting landscapes. Whether a first time reader of a true fan, this is the perfect companion map and guide to bring to life each of Hillerman best-selling mysteries. This hard cover 'European Style' companion map captures events locations and quotations from all Tony Hillerman's Best selling Indian Country mysteries. Extensive illustrations by Peter Thorpe and a highly detailed map bring one of America's most intriguing and mysterious regions to reality."

Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mysteries

Laurence D. Linford

University of Utah Press

2001

"In Tony Hillerman's Navajoland, Laurance Linford takes readers on a journey through the Four Corners region to the haunts of Hillerman's characters. Offered in encyclopedic form, each entry gives the common name of a particular location, the Navajo name and history, and a description of the location's significance in various Hillerman novels. An understanding of the Navajo names and their relations to the landscape will lend a new dimension to the characters and events Tony Hillerman created."

Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn

Anne Hillerman

HarperCollins

2009

"Step into the world of Tony Hillerman's Chee and Leaphorn novels with this stunning collection of original photography of the landscape integral to his writing. Alongside these breathtaking photos are brief synopses of Hillerman's novels, descriptive text from his works, his own comments about the land, and information about the sites pictured. Compiled with remembrances by his eldest daughter, Anne Hillerman, and original photos by Don Strel, here is a timely showcase of a hauntingly beautiful region that captured one man's imagination for a lifetime."

Tony Hillerman s Landscapes: Southwest Map and Guide

Anne Hillerman and Don Strel

2012

"This handsomely illustrated map shows you where to find many of the landscapes Tony Hillerman loved and wrote about. Descriptions of the sites that appear in Hillerman’s novels accompany their placement on the map, making this a wonderful guide for the traveler interested in Hillerman’s New Mexico. Written by Anne Hillerman, Tony Hillerman’s daughter, and photographed by her husband, Don Strel, the guide pairs beautiful photographs with insightful text that draws on the author’s firsthand knowledge of her father’s sense of place."