Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hardboiled crime novel, and his creation 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 on.
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