This is the full and detailed views of the dustcover of the first paperback Japanese edition of Talking God, the ninth book in Tony Hillerman's Navajo Mystery Series. This 1992 edition was published in Tokyo, Japan by Hayakawa Publishing, INC. This edition is also associated with the Mysterious Press, which is a trademark of Warner Brothers, INC. and was used by Hayakawa Publishing with permission. The text was translated from English to Japanese by Tadao Oba. This paperback edition has a dust jacket designed by Shiro Tatsumi, who completed the covers for several Japanese editions of Tony Hillerman novels. The cover features a photographic image of the US capital building in a haze at the bottom of the cover, then a mesa formation hovering above, and then the photo of the US capital building is repeated at the top of the page.
This edition has both front and back fold out sections. The front fold-out contains a list of characters and the publisher's information and the back fold out contains a picture of Tony Hillerman.
