The Dain curse

Dashiell Hammett First published 1929

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • american detective and mystery stories
  • continental op (fictitious character)
  • continental op (fictitious character), fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction in english
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
  • fiction, thrillers, general
  • general
  • large type books
  • open library staff picks
  • private investigators
  • private investigators, fiction