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The Dain curse

  • Dashiell Hammett

2.33

3 ratings

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.

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  • 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
  • FICTION
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About the author

  • Dashiell Hammett

    1894-05-27 - 1961-01-10

    3.51

    53 ratings · 204 works

Editions

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    Diogenes Verlag AG

    Jan 01, 2011

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    Tra edition

    Alianza (Buenos Aires, AR)

    June 30, 2005

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    Debate

    1993

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    Vintage Books

    1989

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ISIS Audio Books

January 1996

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    New Ed edition

    Orion, Orion Publishing Group, Limited

    December 5, 2002

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    3. Auflage

    Diogenes

    1977

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    Vintage

    July 17, 1989

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    Vintage Books

    1972

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    Macmillan

    1975

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    Uniform ed.

    Cassell, Orion Publishing Group, Limited

    1974

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    Pocket Books

    1945

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    Keter

    1980

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    Alianza

    March 1993

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Orion Publishing Group, Limited

    2002

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    Orion Publishing Group, Limited

    2002

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    Orion Publishing Group, Limited

    2014

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    Independently Published

    2018

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Independently Published

    2020

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    Independently Published

    2020

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    Independently Published

    2022

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    Orion Publishing Group, Limited

    2012

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    AST - Folio

    2000

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    Knopf

    1929

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    Amereon Ltd

    June 1976

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    Vintage

    May 12, 1978

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    Buccaneer Books

    November 1986

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    J. Curley

    1983

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    Pocket Books, Inc.

    1929

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    Folio, AST

    2000

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    Vintage Books ed.

    Vintage Books

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    Penguin Books

    1966