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| Original Title: | The Dain Curse |
| ISBN: | 0752851802 (ISBN13: 9780752851808) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Continental Op #2 |
| Characters: | The Continental Op, Edgar Leggett, Alice Dain, Madison Andrews, Dick Cotton |
Dashiell Hammett
Paperback | Pages: 256 pages Rating: 3.83 | 6461 Users | 381 Reviews
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Everything about the Leggett diamond heist indicated to the Continental Op that it was an inside job. From the stray diamond found in the yard to the eyewitness accounts of a "strange man" casing the house, everything was just too pat. Gabrielle Dain-Leggett has enough secrets to fill a closet, and when she disappears shortly after the robbery, she becomes the Op's prime suspect. But her father, Edgar Leggett, keeps some strange company himself and has a dark side the moon would envy. Before he can solve the riddle of the diamond theft, the Continental Op must first solve the mystery of this strange family.
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| Title | : | The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2) |
| Author | : | Dashiell Hammett |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | December 5th 2002 by Orion (first published 1929) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Noir. Classics. Detective. Hard Boiled |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 6461 Users | 381 ReviewsColumn Out Of Books The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
The Continental Op returns in this lesser known Dashiell Hammett mystery. This time, rather than pitting rival gangs against each other in upstate mining towns he's trying to unravel the mystery of the Dain Curse. Gabrielle Leggett has a problem- everyone close to her keeps turning up dead. It's up to the Op to convince her that she's not a victim of some trans-generational blood curse but actual flesh-and-blood chicanery. Along the way he'll spar with ghosts, get sucked into a goodThank you, Hammett! There's now no longer any doubt in my mind that this man was a master of detective fiction. Gabrielle Leggett is an endearing character who originally I thought was just another femme fatale who has a strong taste for morphine and cults... but this is only on the surface. After about 70 pages I thought I had everything figured out and that this long and tangled crime thriller was simple and direct. not so. The Continental Op is a tough detective and no 'sentimental sap' he is
Hammett is all business when it comes to his Continental Ops stories, The Dain Curse included, which started out as several separately published stories in the crime pulps. The gruff, short, overweight, middle aged detective remains nameless, his background and personal life a mystery. He gets to work at 9am, piles up a big, hairy mess of clues, and uses his shrewd wit and intuition to bull through them, the hard nosed professional, yet with an occasional flash of heart and compassion.
A very complicated story of a curse, murder, and old liars. Hammett spins a yarn with deftness, and leads you down the delicious story's path. If you like stories with the language, slang, and idioms of twenties, then this is your story.Poor little Gabriel. Is she a killer? Is there really a curse on the Dain family? Hammett leaves a few questions unanswered. Yet, the most sinister part of the plot are those using the supposed curse to manipulate, mislead, and generally confound those trying to
This book suffers by comparison to Hammett's other novels. The plot goes on and on like a shaggy dog joke. First it's a ghost story, then a detective mystery, then it's a running gag. This is a short novel, but it took me longer to read than anything Hammett has written, just because I kept losing interest because the detective kept losing interest as well. None of the mysteries are really connected except by one woman, who in the end has nothing to do with the crimes going on around her. The
Bodies galore!When Edgar Leggetts home is broken into and some not particularly valuable diamonds go missing, his insurance company send along their operative to investigate enter the Continental Op, the only name we are given for the first-person narrator. The CO soon decides that theres been some kind of inside job, and that theres more to the case than a simple burglary. Leggett has a wife and a weird, strange-looking but oddly attractive daughter, Gabrielle. The plot is entirely
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