Skeleton Man Summary
Tony Hillerman

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Skeleton Man Summary

Skeleton Man is a tale about the search for a case of diamonds lost in a historic collision between two airliners over the Grand Canyon in 1956. The air crash was real, and in fact triggered the formation of the Federal Aviation Administration, but the diamonds and the characters that encounter them are fiction. Joanna Craig is the illegitimate daughter of John Clarke, the man who carried the diamonds cuffed to his...

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