7/6/2023 0 Comments Dance hall of the dead book![]() ![]() ![]() Where did they find so many O’Malleys? He had a sudden vision of an office in the Department of Justice building in Washington, a clerk sending out draft notices to all the male cheerleaders and drum majors at USC, Brigham Young, Arizona State, and Notre Dame, ordering them to get their hair cut and report for duty. Leaphorn looked at him, wondering about this FBI policy. Consistent with his other works, Hillerman uses the awe-inspiring landscape of the American Southwest almost as a character in Dance Hall of the Dead. The FBI people always seemed to be O’Malleys - trimmed, scrubbed, tidy, able to work untroubled by any special measure of intelligence. Thus, his descriptions of setting in Dance Hall of the Dead include much rich, realistic detail, but also serve to further the plot and/or characterization of the novel. Leaphorn’s extensive experience with the FBI suggested that any of these three characteristics would prevent employment. He had bad teeth, irregular and discolored, and an air of casual sloppiness, and something about him which suggested a quick, inquisitive, impatient intelligence. “It had occurred to Leaphorn earlier that Baker was not, in fact, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ![]()
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