The dedication page reads "To Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee", two Navajo Tribal Police characters in detective stories by Tony Hillerman.
Hillerman, T. "Othello in Union County", The Great Taos Bank Robbery, 1973.
Officers of the Navajo Nation Police are the subjects of a series of mystery novels by Tony Hillerman.
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He also had his short story "The Dark Snow'" published in Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, edited by Otto Penzler and Tony Hillerman (ISBN 0618012710).
Bantam provided a substantial advance, expecting the title to rank Izzi alongside contemporaries like Elmore Leonard, Tony Hillerman, Sara Paretsky, and Ed McBain.
The following year's initial choice to be the honoree was again unable to accept due to illness—Oklahoman Tony Hillerman, who would have been the state's second native son to receive the award was, ultimately, replaced by John Grisham.