Books
March, 2002
Taking a Dive in DixieDennis Lenahan, the laid-back hero of Elmore Leonard's Tishomingo Blues (Morrow), is a professional high diver whose specialty is an 80-foot swan into a tiny water tank at the Tishomingo Lodge and Casino. That danger is a drop in the bucket compared with what Lenahan finds during a casino appearance in a Mississippi town that is prepping for its annual Civil War reenactment. Even before the lead balls start to fly, a couple of Dixie Mafia dimwits murder his rigger, and a sm...
