num_pages: 256
description: 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? She believes so and has been reminded of the curse many times. The short, squat, utterly unsentimental Continental Op, the best private detective around, has his doubts and finds himself confronting something infinitely more dangerous.It's the Continental Op's most bizarre case.
language: English
title: The Dain Curse
titlecomplete: The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
characters: Madison Andrews, Edgar Leggett, Alice Dain, The Continental Op, Dick Cotton
genres: Detective, Thriller, Novels, Crime, Hard Boiled, Noir, Classics, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
ratings_count: 7661
places: San Francisco Bay Area, California
series: The Continental Op
publisher: Orion