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The Dain Curse
Dashiell Hammett
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Miss Gabriel Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. They die - violently.
Is she the victim of a family curse? The short, squat, utterly unsentimental Continental Op, the best private detective around, has his doubts and finds himself confronting something infinitely more dangerous.
This is the Continental Op's most bizarre case and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.
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Praise for The Dain Curse
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The Continental Op is the first fully hard-boiled hero in American letters. - The New YorkerHammett's prose was clean and entirely unique. His characters were as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction. - New York TimesHammett took murder out of the Venetian vase and dropped it into the alley... [he] gave murder back to the people who commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse. - Raymond ChandlerDashiell Hammett is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer. - Boston GlobeGreat crime fiction started with Hammett. - James EllroyHammett was breaking new ground in every book he wrote. - George Pelecanos
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