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Coel, Margaret Speas was born on October 11, 1937 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Daughter of Samuel Francis and Margaret Mary (McCloskey) Speas.
(When the Arapaho tribal chairman is found murdered in his...)
When the Arapaho tribal chairman is found murdered in his tepee at the Ethete powwow, the evidence points to the chairman's nephew, Anthony Castle. But Father John O'Malley, pastor of St. Francis Mission, and Vicky Holden, the Arapaho lawyer, do not believe the young man capable of murder. Together they set out to find the real murderer and clear Anthony's name. The trail that Father John and Vicky follow winds across the high plains of the Wind River Reservation into Arapaho homes and community centers and into the fraud-infested world of Indian oil and land deals. Eventually it leads to the past—the Old Time—when the Arapahos were forced from their homes on the Great Plains and sent to the reservation. There in the Old Time, Father John and Vicky discover a crime so heinous that someone was willing to commit murder more than a hundred years later to keep it hidden. As they close in a killer who does not hesitate to kill again, they discover they have become the next targets... Critics have praised The Eagle Catcher as a tightly crafted mystery that blends Native American culture and history with contemporary issues and fast-paced action. It introduced two intelligent, compassionate sleuths: Father John O'Malley, S.J., a history scholar and recovering alcoholic, exiled to an Indian mission on the Great Plains, and Vicky Holden, an attorney who, after ten years in the outside world, has returned to the reservation to help her people.
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(Kiki Wallowingbull went to Hollywood to uncover the truth...)
Kiki Wallowingbull went to Hollywood to uncover the truth behind why his great-grandfather disappeared back in 1923. But after Kiki's frozen body is discovered on the reservation, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley must find the connection between the two violent deaths separated by nearly a century.
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(Father O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden return!...)
Father O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden return! When a sacred tribal artifact disappears from a museum, it's more than Arapaho history that is lost--it's an Arapaho student's life...
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(The twelfth title in the series finds the Wind River Rese...)
The twelfth title in the series finds the Wind River Reservation without another one of its sacred petroglyphs. The Red Cliff canyon has been home to these sacred petroglyphs, and their accompanying sacred spirits, for a few thousand years. Seven years ago, however, one was pried out of the canyon and stolen. Travis Birdsong sits in prison for killing his partner in the crime. Yet, he has always maintained his innocence in the death and has never been tried for stealing the petroglyph. Attorney Vicki Holden decides to take the case, much to the chagrin of her law partner and lover Adam Lone Eagle and the Wind River Reservation tribes. Vicki is convinced that Travis must be innocent because another petroglyph has been stolen out of the canyon. She is even more convinced after the thieves contact the mission priest, Father John O'Malley, in order to get the tribes to buy the artifact back. As Father John tries to get the petroglyph back and Vicki tries to prove Travis is innocent, the two situations collide.
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(The apparent suicide of a young Arapaho on sacred ground ...)
The apparent suicide of a young Arapaho on sacred ground shocks the populace of the Wind River Reservation. But strange events following the death lead Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley to suspect foul play.
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(Attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley investigat...)
Attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley investigate the death of Liz Plenty Horses a woman murdered back in 1973 after being accused of betraying the militant American Indian Movement and incite the malice of a long-dormant killer.
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(Margaret Coel's mysteries "shouldn't be missed by anyone ...)
Margaret Coel's mysteries "shouldn't be missed by anyone interested in either new trends in mystery writing or contemporary American Indian culture. She?s a master at both." —Tony Hillerman Father John O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden return to face a brutal crime of greed, false promises, and shattered dreams... * Third in the bestselling and award-winning series featuring Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden
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(Discovering a corpse that disappears after he calls the p...)
Discovering a corpse that disappears after he calls the police, Father John O'Malley, assisted by Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden, stumbles upon a series of dangerous crimes, including the cases of a missing man and a woman's murder. Reprint. Title: The Ghost Walker Author: Coel, Margaret Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Publication Date: 1997/09/01 Number of Pages: 243 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress:
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(Attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O?Malley investigat...)
Attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O?Malley investigate the death of Liz Plenty Horses?a woman murdered back in 1973 after being accused of betraying the militant American Indian Movement?and incite the malice of a long-dormant killer.
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(This is for the Indian priest. The cryptic message was c...)
This is for the Indian priest. The cryptic message was clearly meant for Father O’Malley. The unemotional voice on the answering machine, speaking of revenge against old enemies, wanted O’Malley to visit the site of the Bates Battle. In 1874, Shoshone warriors led Captain Alfred Bates’s cavalry to Arapaho tribal grounds, and nearly everyone living there was massacred. As a nation, the Arapaho were finished, but their people survived. Now, someone has left three dead Shoshones on the old battlefield, positioned to mimic the bodies of those Arapaho killed in the historic slaughter. Vicky Holden’s latest client, Frankie Montana, has become the number one suspect in their deaths. Despite his less than sterling background, Vicky doesn’t believe he’s capable of murder. Someone is trying to stir up a war between the Arapaho and Shoshone people—and tear open the painful wounds of the past once more…
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(Lawyer Vicky Holden leaves the reservation for important ...)
Lawyer Vicky Holden leaves the reservation for important cases for the Indian Nations. But Wind River pulls her back when Balder Industries executive Vince Lewis is killed while trying to hire Vicky for reservation work.
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(In Margaret Coel's latest Wind River Reservation mystery,...)
In Margaret Coel's latest Wind River Reservation mystery, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley find themselves immersed in the dark underbelly of the illegal market for Indian relics.
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(While investigating a supposed suicide of a young Arapaho...)
While investigating a supposed suicide of a young Arapaho on the Wind River Reservation and a hit-and-run accident in Denver, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley discover that both of the deaths may have been murders and set out to expo Title: The Thunder Keeper Author: Coel, Margaret Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Publication Date: 2002/08/01 Number of Pages: 245 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress:
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(The discovery of a white man's body on the Wind River Res...)
The discovery of a white man's body on the Wind River Reservation has Father John O'Malley trying to keep the peace. Meanwhile, the newly opened Great Plains Casino--with Vicky Holden as its in-house counsel--is fighting for its life against an angry group of protesters. And when Vicky stumbles across some disturbing evidence about the murder, she's suddenly caught in a dangerous game--with her own life at stake.
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( This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diploma...)
This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons—both white and Indian—who knew him, Margaret Coel has developed an unusually readable, interesting, and closely documented account of his life and the life of his tribe during the fateful years of the mid-1800s. It was in these years that thousands of gold-seekers on their way to California and Oregon burst across the plains, first to traverse the territory consigned to the Indians and then, with the discovery of gold in 1858 on Little Dry Creek (formerly the site of the Southern Arapaho winter campground and presently Denver, Colorado), to settle. Chief Left Hand was one of the first of his people to acknowledge the inevitability of the white man’s presence on the plain, and thereafter to espouse a policy of adamant peacefulness —if not, finally, friendship—toward the newcomers. Chief Left Hand is not only a consuming story—popular history at its best—but an important work of original scholarship. In it the author: • Clearly establishes the separate identities of the original Left Hand, the subject of her book, and the man by the same name who succeeded Little Raven in 1889 as the principal chief of the Southern Arapahos in Oklahoma—a longtime source of confusion to students of western history; • Lays to rest, with a series of previously unpublished letters by George Bent, a century-long dispute among historians as to Left Hand’s fate at Sand Creek; • Examines the role of John A. Evans, first governor of Colorado, in the Sand Creek Massacre. Colonel Chivington, commander of the Colorado Volunteers, has always (and justly) been held responsible for the surprise attack. But Governor Evans, who afterwards claimed ignorance and innocence of the colonel’s intentions, was also deeply involved. His letters, on file in the Colorado State Archives, have somehow escaped the scrutiny of historians and remain, for the most part, unpublished. These Coel has used extensively, allowing the governor to tell, in his own words, his real role in the massacre. The author also examines Evans’s motivations for coming to Colorado, his involvement with the building of the transcontinental railroad, and his intention of clearing the Southern Arapahos from the plains —an intention that abetted Chivington’s ambitions and led to their ruthless slaughter at Sand Creek.
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O'Malley Mystery Series The apparent suicide of a young Arapaho on sacred ground shocks the populace of the Wind River Reservation. But strange events following the death lead Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley to suspect foul play.
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(With the disappearance of a young man and his old friend ...)
With the disappearance of a young man and his old friend Vicky Holden accused of murder, Father John O'Malley must prove his hunch that both events are connected to a dangerous sect leader known as Orlando-who has resurrected the old Shadow Dance religion.
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Father O'Malley and Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden must uncover a baby-selling scheme at a clinic forty years ago. "Suspenseful...Solid characters and a keen sense of place...keep this tale humming." --Publishers Weekly
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( Investigative reporter Catherine McLeod is covering a c...)
Investigative reporter Catherine McLeod is covering a claim filed by the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes for twenty-seven million acres of their ancestral lands. Her relentless pursuit of the truth will make her the target of a killer?and plunge her into a conspiracy that leads into the past, the founding of Denver, and her own heritage.
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Arapaho attorney Vicki Holden and Father John O'Malley must find the link between the murder of a woman—and the murder of her ancestor from a century earlier.
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Coel, Margaret Speas was born on October 11, 1937 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Daughter of Samuel Francis and Margaret Mary (McCloskey) Speas.
She graduated in journalism from Marquette University in 1960 and worked on the Boulder Daily Camera.
Newspaper reporter Westminister (Colorado) Journal, 1960-1961. Freelance journalist Boulder, Colorado, 1972-1990. Writing teacher community colleges, Denver, 1985-1990, University Colo, Boulder, 1985-1990.
(While investigating a supposed suicide of a young Arapaho...)
(With the disappearance of a young man and his old friend ...)
(Attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley investigat...)
(Attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O?Malley investigat...)
(Discovering a corpse that disappears after he calls the p...)
(In Margaret Coel's latest Wind River Reservation mystery,...)
(Father O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden return!...)
(Arapaho attorney Vicki Holden and Father John O'Malley mu...)
( Investigative reporter Catherine McLeod is covering a c...)
(Margaret Coel's mysteries "shouldn't be missed by anyone ...)
(When the Arapaho tribal chairman is found murdered in his...)
(O'Malley Mystery Series The apparent suicide of a young A...)
(Kiki Wallowingbull went to Hollywood to uncover the truth...)
(The discovery of a white man's body on the Wind River Res...)
(The twelfth title in the series finds the Wind River Rese...)
(Father O'Malley and Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden must unco...)
(The apparent suicide of a young Arapaho on sacred ground ...)
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(Lawyer Vicky Holden leaves the reservation for important ...)
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Associate fellow Center for Studies of Great Plains, University Nebraska. Member Colorado Authors League (president 1990-1991. Best Non-Fiction Articles award 1991, Best Novel award 1996, 97), Mystery Writers American, Denver Women's Press Club.
Married George William Coel, July 22, 1961. Children: William (deceased), Kristin Coel Henderson, Lisa Coel Harrison.