Buffalo Bill's Dead Now

Zusatztext [Coel is] a master.Tony Hillerman Praise for Buffalo Bill's Dead Now Margaret Coel seems poised to take on [Tony Hillerman's] mantle to honor the Arapaho and the West. The Denver Post An interesting combination of historical information on Buffalo Bill's wildly popular show and modern-day mystery. Kirkus Reviews Compelling[A] novel of murder! love! greed! redemption! and respect for one's heritageand a tribute to Coel's legacy as a talented mystery writer and a skillful storyteller.Bookreporter.com Informationen zum Autor Margaret Coel Klappentext The regalia worn by Arapaho Chief Black Heart in Buffalo Bill's Wild West more than 120 years ago have disappeared en route to collector Trevor Pratt. Arapaho attorney Vicki Holden and Father John O'Malley suspect Trevor knows more about the theft than he's tellingNa suspicion that's confirmed when they find him murdered in his home. 1 The pickup rumbling past the administration building sent a tremor through the old walls. Father John O'Malley set his pen down and pushed the notes he'd been making into a neat stack. Topics for next month's sermons, ideas for the men's club he'd started this fall, agenda for the social committee meeting this week. Five parishioners in the hospital, six new mothers who needed help with diapers, blankets, and baby food, a dozen elders who might run short of food this winter. Plus notes he'd written on the budget, never his strong point. What was it the provincial said? He ran St. Francis Mission on a hope and a prayer? Some truth in it. His business plan was to make lists of what the mission needed and pray for miracles. The donations always arrived, checks for five, ten, even a hundred dollars from people he had never heard of. Help the Arapahos on the reservation the scribbled notes said. He hurried outside and down the concrete steps. The black pickup slowed in front of the Arapaho museum at the far curve of Circle Drive. He broke into a jog along the drive, past the turn off to Eagle Hall and the guest house, past the white stucco church decorated in the blue, red, and yellow geometric symbols of the Arapaho people. It was the third Tuesday in September, the Moon of the Drying Grass, as Arapahos kept time, and the sun was hot, the sky crystal blue. Gravel crunched under his boots and wild grasses in the center of the drive swayed in the wind. He liked autumn best, the trees and brush, the earth itself, engulfed in flames of red, orange, and gold. St. Francis Mission on the Wind River Reservation had been home for almost ten years. Still a surprise, when he thought about it. A Boston Irishman, a Jesuit priest on the fast track to an academic career teaching American history at Boston College or Marquette University, at home in the middle of Wyoming on an Indian reservation with a Plains Indian tribe he had only read about in the footnotes of history texts. One day he would be assigned somewhere else, but he was here today. The driver's door swung open just as he reached the pickup in front of the old gray stone building, the mission school once. The school had closed decades ago, with not enough Jesuits or money to keep it going. A few years ago he had turned the building into a museum of Arapaho history and culture. The wind whistled in the banner stretched over the front porch. Printed in black on a red background were the words: Arapaho Artifacts from Buffalo Bill's Wild West. September 21 to January 10. Father John leaned down to steady the old man starting to climb out of the pickup. Scuffed boots swung forward and planted themselves on the ground. How are you, Grandfather, he said, using the term of respect for elders. Bernard Tallman pushed his Stetson back with the knuckle of an index finger and blinked up at him. He had been tall once, Father John suspect...

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Margaret Coel

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The regalia worn by Arapaho Chief Black Heart in Buffalo Bill's Wild West more than 120 years ago have disappeared en route to collector Trevor Pratt. Arapaho attorney Vicki Holden and Father John O'Malley suspect Trevor knows more about the theft than he's tellingNa suspicion that's confirmed when they find him murdered in his home.