Tony Hillerman: 1925-

Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee
The Blessing Way
Finalist for Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Best First Novel Award, 1970
Dance Hall of the Dead
MWA Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Mystery Novel of the West, 1973
Listening Woman
People of the Darkness
The Dark Wind
The Ghostway
starring Lou Diamond Phillips
Skinwalkers
1986 Best Seller Lists
1986 Won Western Writers of America Spur Award
A Thief of Time
Talking God
starring Adam Beach
starring Adam Beach
Coyote Waits
Sacred Clowns
The Fallen Man
starring Adam Beach
The First Eagle
Hunting Badger
Hunting Badger
The Wailing Wind
The Wailing Wind
The Sinister Pig
The Sinister Pig
The Skeleton Man
Skeleton Man
The Shape-Shifter
The Shape-Shifter
COMPILATIONS

The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries
  • The Belessing Way
  • Dance Hall of the Dead
  • Listening Woman

  • The Jim Chee Mysteries
  • People of Darkness
  • The Dark Wind
  • The Ghostway

  • Leaphorn & Chee
  • Skinwalkers
  • A Thief of Time
  • Talking God

  • Leaphorn & Chee
  • Skinwalkers
  • A Thief of Time
  • Coyote Waits
  • Non-Chee/Leaphorn Books
    The Fly On the Wall(a political mystery)
    The Boy Who Made Dragonfly, A Zuni Myth(children's story)
    The Great Taos Bank Robbery & Other Indian Country Affairs(nf--essays)
    New Mexico, Rio Grande and Other Essays
    With photography by David Muench and Robert Reynolds
    Rio Grande
    a pictoral essay with photos by Robert Reynolds
    Indian Country: America's Sacred Land
    Tony Hillerman's Indian Country Map & Guide
    Hillerman Country
    A Journey Through the SouthWest
    Finding Moon
    Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir
    Buster Mesquite's Cowboy Band
    Canyon de Chelly
    Kilroy Was There: A GI's War in Photographs
    Navajoland: A Native Son Shares His Legacy
    Edited
    The Spell of New Mexico
    a pictoral essay with photos by Robert Reynolds
    The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West
    The Mysterious West
    The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories
    edited with Rosemary Herbert
    Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
    edited with Otto Penzler
    A New Omnibus of Crime, With Rosemary Herbert
    Introductions Written for
    A Boyhood in the Dustbowl 1926-1934
    by Robert Alan Rutland
    Few and Far Between: Moments in the North American Desert
    by John Martin Campbell
    The Prairie Schoolhouse
    by John Martin Campbell
    Robbers Rogues and Ruffians: True Tales of the Wild West
    by Howard Bryan
    Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mysteries
    by Laurance D. Linford
    The Panama Hat Trail
    by Tom Miller
    Dancing Gods: Indian Ceremonials of New Mexico and Arizona
    by Erna Fergusson
    Tony Hillerman's Frontier: Comanche Trail
    by Will Camp
    Tony Hillerman's Frontier: Cold Justice
    by Will Camp
    New Mexico's Best Ghost Towns: A Practical Guide
    by Philip Varney
    Contributed to Omnibuses
    Hunting Badger
    Reader's Digest 2002 vol 2
    With
  • Follow the Stars Home by Luanne Rice
  • The Quiet Game by Greg Iles
    And
  • Second Wind by Dick Francis
  • Hunting Badger
    Reader's Digest 2005 vol 2
    With
  • The Summer I Dared by Ken Follett
  • A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
    And
  • Whiteout by Barbara Delinsky
  • The Wailing Wind
    Reader's Digest Select Editions 2002
    With
  • The Smoke Jumper by Nicholas Evans
  • The Stone Monkdy by Jeffrey Deaver
    And
  • Step Ball Change by Jeanne Ray
  • Coyote Waits
    Reader's Digest 1990 vol 5
    With
  • Harvest by Belva Plain
  • Purpose of Evasion by Greg Dinallo
    And
  • Snare of Serpents by Victoria Holt
  • Short Stories
    "Chee's Witch"
    The New Black Mask 7
    The New Mystery: he International Association of Crime Writers' essential crime writing of the Late 20th Century /
    A Modern Treasuries of Great Detective & Murder Mysteries
    The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories
    A Century of Mysterey 1980-1989
    First Cases: New & Classic Tales of Detection vol 3
    A Century of Great Suspense Stories
    "First Lead Gasser"
    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine # 612
    2nd Culprit: An Annual of Crime Stories
    The Year's 25 Finest Crime & Mystery Stories 3rd Annual Edition
    Twelve American Crime Stories
    Master's Choice
    "The Witch, Yazzie, and the Nine of Clubs"
    Crime Wave
    Sleuths of the Century
    The Perfect Murder: Five Great Mystery Writers Create the Perfect Crime
    The Serpent's Tongue: Prose, Poetry & Art of the New Mexican Pueblos
    Awards
    • 1990 -- Won National Media Award of the American Anthropological Association
    • 1990 -- Public Services Award of the Department of the Interior
    • 1987 -- Special Friends of the Dinee award by Navajo Nation
    • 1989 -- Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award
    • 1979 -- Guest of Honor at BoucherCon Mystery Convention

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    Sources Used
    The Tony Hillerman Companion edited by Martin Greenberg
    Tony Hillerman: A Critical Companion by John M. Reilly
    Western Writes Series #87: Tony Hillerman by Fred Erisman
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