num_pages: 233
description: Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hardboiled crime novel, and his creation 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 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.
language: English
title: The Dain Curse
titlecomplete: The Dain Curse
characters: Madison Andrews, Alice Dain, Dick Cotton, Edgar Leggett, The Continental Op
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Novels, Hard Boiled, Crime
ratings_count: 7663
places: San Francisco Bay Area, California
series: The Continental Op
publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard