Blind sculptor Mo Bowdre and his lovely Anglo-Hopi girlfriend， Connie Barnes， find themselves at a remote desert research station in the bootheel of New Mexico. The station is an outpost of gossiping， back-biting research scientists， thirty miles from the Mexican border and three hundred miles from nowhere， and an unlikely site for Bowdre s newest sculpture commission -- not to mention conspiracy， sexual deception， smuggling， and murder.When a female corpse turns up in the desert vastness of Skeleton Canyon， the research station is plunged into turmoil. And when it is discovered that the murdered woman was not only a scientist but a special FBI agent， Bowdre goes into action.Written with grit and honesty， peopled with an unforgettable cast of eccentrics， steeped in the harsh beauty of the New Mexican desert， The Deadly Canyon is at once a superbly crafted novel and a breathtaking mystery story.