Alıntı yaparak yanıtlaAmerikali polisiye ve dedektif romanlari yazari Anthony Grove 'Tony' Hillerman'in olum yildonumu (26 Ekim 2008)
"Memur Bernadette Manuelito'ya gore, kamyonetin on koltugunda kivrilmis yatan adam, ickiyi fazla kacirmis diger sarhoslardan biriydi. Ne var ki cabuk verilmis bu karar, olay yerindeki kanitlara zarar verdigi icin Bernie'yi zor durumda birakacak, Cavus Jim Chee'nin basini FBI ile derde sokacak ve Tegmen Joe Leaphorn'u emeklilik gunlerinden koparip, uzun zamandir unutmaya calistigi o eski 'Altin Madeni Cinayetinin' tam gobegine surukleyecekti.
Peki, oyleyse zengin adamin karisi niye birdenbire ortadan kaybolmustu?
Dort genc, polisi arayarak tuhaf bir ihbarda bulunmuslardi. Eski binalarin etrafinda ciglik cigliga savrulan ruzgarin icinde, muzige ve kadin haykirisina benzeyen sesler duymuslardi. Bernadette Manuelito, dugumun ilk halkasini cozmek icin Navaho topragi ve gelenekleriyle ilgili bilgisinden ve taninmis bir Navaho samaniyla olan dostlugundan faydalanacak, kendisine yardim etmek icin FBI ile arasindaki sorunlari bir tarafa birakan Jim Chee'yi de yaninda bulacaktir. Fakat ikinci cinayetin cevap bekleyen sorulari, Leaphorn'un ilk cinayetin ardinda biraktigi gizemi cozmesine ve o gece ambarlarin arasindan yurumekte olan genclerin ruzgarin cigliklari arasinda duyduklari sesin ne oldugunu ortaya cikarmasina dek aydinlanamayacaktir." Ruzgarin Cigligi
"To Officer Bernadette Manuelito, the man curled up on the truck seat was just another drunk—which got Bernie in trouble for mishandling a crime scene—which got Sergeant Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI—which drew Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement and back into the old "Golden Calf" homicide, a case he had hoped to forget.
Except why did the rich man's bride vanish?
The cynics said she was part of the swindle plot. She'd fled when it failed. But, alas, old Joe Leaphorn was a romantic. He believed in love, and thus the Golden Calf case still troubled him. Now, papers found in this new homicide case connect the victim to Denton and to the mythical Golden Calf Mine. The first Golden Calf victim had been there just hours before Denton killed him. And while Denton was killing him, four children trespassing among the rows of empty bunkers in the long-abandoned Wingate Ordnance Depot called in an odd report to the police. They had heard, in the wind wailing around the old buildings, what sounded like music and the cries of a woman. Bernie Manuelito uses her knowledge of Navajo country, its tribal traditions, and her friendship with a famous old medicine man to unravel the first knot of this puzzle, with Jim Chee putting aside his distaste of the FBI to help her. But the questions raised by this second Golden Calf murder aren't answered until Leaphorn solves the puzzle left by the first one and discovers what the young trespassers heard in the wailing wind."
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