Leaphorn spends a harrowing 30 hours in the caves of the canyon wall, escaping from the dog or the men who brought the dog.
Rain washed the tracks outside, but he sees large dog paw prints inside the hogan. Leaphorn drives to the area of the hogan, parking on solid ground, then walking to the hogan. When that killer emerges from the canyon again, Father Benjamin and Theodora are the people who will be found in the hogan. Cigarette sat in a different spot than he originally assumed, one that meant the killer of Hosteen Tso and Annie came from the canyon, not the road. He reads about Tull and Hoski, the latter a man of many aliases. The next step is a visit to the FBI office in Albuquerque to read the file for that case. He saw a name on a light carried by a boy there, which he realized was the name of the pilot of a helicopter lost in a dramatic theft of cash from an armored car in Santa Fe a few years earlier by members of the Buffalo Society, an extremist break-away group from AIM. Later, Leaphorn returns to the Kinaalda to talk with Margaret Cigarette. At the Tso hogan, Leaphorn observes Benjamin saying Catholic mass in the dawn. Leaphorn talks with Shorty McGinnis, where he meets Theodora Adams, who seeks Benjamin Tso. The man wore gold rimmed glasses, had black hair and had a huge dog in the back seat. Once Leaphorn is outside the car, the driver attempts to kill him with the vehicle, but Leaphorn moves away in time. A car at very high speed approaches them, and slows seeing the police car’s flashing lights. Leaphorn is returning from a Kinaalda ceremony with a man who escaped arrest earlier.
Initial investigation does not find the killer, or any possible motive for this crime. She returns to find both Tso and her niece dead. and noted for "unselfconsciously drawing on the best of two clashing cultures." Plot summary Īfter talking with Hosteen Tso to learn what will best improve his health, Margaret Cigaret walks away from the hogan on Nokaito Bench to ponder his situation and prepare her advice. It was well-received as "a compelling and often chilling book". The novel was nominated for the 1979 "Best Mystery Novel" Edgar Award. He is then entangled in a tense hostage situation in the caves near the San Juan River. Pursuing what begins as a routine police call, Leaphorn is nearly killed by the driver of a car. Listening Woman is the third crime fiction novel in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series by Tony Hillerman, first published in 1978. Jim Chee / Joe Leaphorn Navajo Tribal Police Series
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