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The Dain Curse

By Dashiell Hammett

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
1929
ISBN
0679722602, 9780679722601
Open Library ID
OL18350267M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
263 kB (268996 bytes)
Edition
X
Pages
240\0
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? Or is the truth about her weirder and infinitely more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.

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