Describe the role of Margaret Cigaret in the illness of Hosteen Tso. What is Anna Atcitty's role in the situation? What is it that Hosteen Tso tells Margaret Cigaret about the frog? About the paintings? What is the reaction of the police to Margaret Cigaret's information regarding the details of her meeting with Hosteen Tso? How does Joe Leaphorn's attitude differ? Why?

What is the "Begay Boy" being arrested by Joe Leaphorn for? What is Leaphorn supposed to do the day after he arrests the Begay boy? What is it that changes his plans? How do the Boy Scouts become involved in the final showdown involving Leaphorn and the members of the renegade group who stole the money from Santa Fe?

Leaphorn is examining two apparently unrelated cases - the case of a missing helicopter that was apparently carrying money taken from a Santa...