The Dain curse
By: Dashiell Hammett
Series: Vintage crime; Vintage crime
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780307767479
Subjects: Continental Op (Fictitious character); Fiction; FICTION; General
Description: 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?