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Apache
art collecting
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Author_Gary Robinson
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hard-boiled
Native detective
Native noir
Santa Fe
serial killer
Product details
- ISBN 9780826367914
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2025
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Someone, or something, is killing the Native artists and art collectors of Santa Fe. The police are baffled by a series of brutal murders in the dead of night: bloody ritual killings with all the trappings of some of the mythic monsters of the Apache origin stories, all signed with the same bloody signature: the Coyote. But where the police fail, Johnny may succeed. Johnny Geronimo is a hard-bitten, hard-boiled private investigator right out of the pages of Chandler or Cain but with a key advantage: as an Apache, Johnny can go places the police can't, and he can talk to the people the police won't. As the owner of Eagle Eye Investigations, Johhny moves effortlessly among both the high society of Santa Fe and the outlaw underworld. With his assistants, Willy and Jessie, as well as a succession of lady friends, Johnny sets out on the trail of the Coyote. The closer he gets, the more it becomes apparent that the hunter is also the hunted. Johnny Geronimo: Art of Darkness incorporates themes from Apache and other Native traditions to tell the story of this classic antihero of Native noir and of the demonic Coyote, who may turn out to be more than anyone can imagine.
Gary Robinson is a writer and filmmaker of Choctaw and Cherokee descent. He is the author of the "Lands of our Ancestors" series of Native American historical novels, A Native American Night Before Christmas, the YA novel Billy Buckhorn and the Book of Spells, and others. He lives in Santa Ynez, California.
Dale Deforest is a member of the Diné tribe and grew up in the Four Corners area of the Navajo Nation around Shiprock and Farmington, New Mexico. He studied 2-D arts and photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dale's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions. Most recently, his piece "The Force Is With Our People"—an exhibition celebrating Native people's relation to pop culture—was shown at the Museum of Northern Arizona. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
