Een jonge politieagent van Indiaanse afkomst komt op het spoor van drugsmokkel.
Twee detectives van de Navaho-stam stuiten op diverse doden tijdens hun onderzoek naar de verdwijning van een antropologe.
Another superior mystery involving American Indian policemen Chee and Leaphorn and the murder of another policeman. Annotation. The master's newest Chee-Leaphorn mystery with the usual informative Navajo anthropology.
Three armed men raid the Ute tribe's gambling casino, and then disappear in the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border.
Witchcraft appears to be involved in the death of an Indian whose body was found in Many Ruins Canyon, and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is charged with the task of solving the crime.