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| Author | Tony Hillerman |
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| Cover artist | David Myers |
| Language | English |
| Series | Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police Series |
| Genre | Detective fiction |
| Set in | Navajo Nation in Southwestern United States |
| Published | 1984 Harper & Row |
| Publication place | USA |
| Media type | Print and audio |
| Pages | 213 |
| ISBN | 0-06-015396-2 |
| OCLC | 10998822 |
| Preceded by | The Dark Wind (1982) |
| Followed by | Skinwalkers (1986) |
The Ghostway is a crime novel by American writer Tony Hillerman, the sixth in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series. It was first published in 1984 and features Jim Chee.
A gunfight at a laundromat in Shiprock NM brings Los Angeles problems to the Navajo reservation.
The novel was reviewed positively at its publication. "The tension between the Navajo way-of-life and the tempting white-world outside. . . is central and emphatic"[1] in this novel. The central character "Chee is developed to greater depth than before",[2] though that reviewer felt that the three novels featuring Leaphorn (first three in this series) were more powerful. Another called this novel choice reading.[3] Another review found that the story "moves alertly along" and is "one of the best in the series."[4]
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