The Dain Curse

Author: Dashiell Hammett

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Price : $30.00 NZD
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ISBN : 9781409138051
Publisher : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Imprint : Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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Weight (g) : 0.246
Publication date : 01 February 2012
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 29.99
Availability date : 01 April 2012
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Author : Dashiell Hammett
Series : Murder Room Ser.
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 1
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 813.52
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Pages : 256
BIC subject : FF
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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? The short, squat, utterly unsentimental Continental Op, the best private detective around, has his doubts and finds himself confronting something infinitely more dangerous. This is the Continental Op's most bizarre case and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.

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'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMES

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Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland and worked in a number of menial jobs until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man and some eighty short stories, mostly published in Black Mask magazine.

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