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Pension hasn't sat well with previous Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. Today the spirits of the still-unsolved situation are time for bother him, reawakened with a picture in a newspaper spread of the one-of-a-kind Navajo rug, a precious work of woven art which was allegedly destroyed in a suspicious fire a long time earlier. The carpet, commemorating among the darkest and most awful chapters in American history, was usually considered cursed, and the friend who introduced it to Leaphornis interest has mysteriously gone missing today. With recently married officials Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito just back from their vacation, the renowned ex-lawman is by himself to get the threads of the crime he'd once believed impossible to untangle.