How long does it take to read Dance Hall of the Dead?
Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman takes about 4 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Joe Leaphorn
Previous: The Blessing Way Next: Skinwalkers
About 4 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1973. 224 pages, about 61,600 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 32 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zuñi people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn's already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, to kill again.
Subjects: Mystery, Police in fiction, Navajo Indians in fiction, Police, New southwest in fiction, Navajo Indians
