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In Oklahoma's Cherokee county, police chief Bushyhead investigates the death of the director of a center for rehabilitating drug addicts. A murder mystery, as well as a look at Cherokee life and customs. By the author of Ghostland.Tags
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Jean Hager has written numerous novels, many under the pseudonyms Marlaine Kyle, Amanda McAllister, Sara North and Jeanne Stephens. Hager, who is one-eighth Cherokee and often explores Native American themes in her work. She received the Teepee Trophy award from the Oklahoma Writers Federation for best novel of 1977 for Terror in the Sunlight, and show more best novel of 1979 for Shadow of the Tamaracks. Her other books include A Suitable Marriage (1982), Seven Black Stones (1995), and Masked Dancers (1998). Jean Hager was born in 1932 in Maywood, Illinois. She married Kenneth C. Hager in 1950, and graduated from Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma in 1969. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Fire Carrier
- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- Mitch Bushyhead
- Important places
- Buckskin, Oklahoma, USA
- First words
- Henderson Sixkiller huddled beneat the patchwork quilt he had stolen from a clothesline the other side of the Delaware County line.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Well, he surely meant to do that.
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- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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