Title: The Dain curse
Description: 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 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? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.
Subjects: Private investigators, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction in English, Fiction, Continental Op (Fictitious character), Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Continental op (fictitious character), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, General, American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, thrillers, general
Places: United States, San Francisco (Calif.)