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The Dain Curse (Crime Masterworks)

The Dain Curse (Crime Masterworks)

by Dashiell Hammett (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $12.61

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    Paperback 1975

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 05 Dec 2002
ISBN 10: 0752851802
ISBN 13: 9780752851808
Book Overview: 'The Continental Op is the first fully hard-boiled hero in American letters' The New Yorker 'Hammett's prose was clean and entirely unique. His characters were as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction' The New York Times 'Hammett 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 Chandler A tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense 'Dashiell Hammett is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' Boston Globe

Author Bio
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland and worked in a number of menial jobs until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine.