Dance Hall of the Dead
New York: Armchair Detective Library, 1991.
First Armchair Detective Library Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, silver decorated blue cloth with etching of Hillerman pasted-on front board, iv, 242pp. Item #900260
ISBN: 0922890730
Signed by the author on half-title. Hillerman's 3rd novel and the 2nd featuring Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police. A young Zuni boy is found murdered and his friend has disappeared. Suspected of having stolen artifiaccts from a local anthropological site, the missing boy was known to be interested in the Zuni tribal religion. Leaphorn must travel into the vast desert of the reservation to find the boy and solve the mystery. Shallow 5/8" scratch rear board, crisp, bright copy, fine.
Price: $100.00