The Zuni believe in something like heaven after death, where the Navajo encourage the people to do their best on earth, as their chindi, the worst of a person, will be a ghost left behind after death. The story contrasts Zuni and Navajo beliefs through the two boys and the two policemen. He is a challenge for Leaphorn, the most skilled tracker, to find, especially once he realizes who the killer is, and the search moves to a major Zuni ceremony. He seeks spiritual guidance, as well, being the only Navajo boy in his class at school. This Navajo boy is a well-trained hunter who has to skip school some days to hunt to feed himself, his father and his brother.
Tracks of the other boy are found at the scene. The Zuni boy's body is found, brutally murdered. One boy is a Navajo, so Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is called in to find him while the Zuni police seek the other boy. Two boys are missing from the Zuni school. It is set primarily in Ramah Reservation (part of the Navajo Reservation) and the Zuni village in New Mexico, both in the American Southwest. It features police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. 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.Dance Hall Of The Dead is the second crime fiction novel in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series by Tony Hillerman, first published in 1973. Leaphorn looked at him, wondering about this FBI policy. The FBI people always seemed to be O’Malleys - trimmed, scrubbed, tidy, able to work untroubled by any special measure of intelligence. 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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