Softcover binding has light shelfwear to edges of covers. Pages tight and clean but some yellowing due to age. 258 pages. MMP Binding. Year: 1973. ISBN: 0061000027. Two young boys suddenly disappear. One of them, a Zuni, leaves a pool of blood behind. Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police tracks the brutal killer. Three things complicate the search: an archeological dig, a steel hypodermic needle, and the strange laws of he Zuni.