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THE DAIN CURSE by Dashiell Hammett TO ALBERT S. SAMUELS CONTENTS Part One: The Dains I. Eight Diamonds II. Long-nose III. Something Black IV. The Vague Harpers V. Gabrielle VI. The Man from Devil's Island VII. The Curse VIII. But and If Part Two: The Temple IX. Tad's Blind Man X. Dead Flowers XI. God XII. The Unholy Grail Part Three: Quesada ...
The Dain Curse. “The Curse Nobody said anything for some minutes after I had finished reading. Mrs. Leggett had taken her handkerchief from her face to listen, sobbing softly now and then. Gabrielle Leggett was looking jerkily around the room, light fighting cloudiness in her eyes, her lips twitching as if she was trying to get words out but ...
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Sep 12, 2008 · The Dain Curse. The Continental Op runs up against a family of occultists while trying to solve a diamond heist. This is the classic Dashiell Hammett detective walking into a Weird Tales story of cults, magic, drugs and human sacrifice. This reading was created using modern human voice synthesis Text To Speech software.
The Dain Curse is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, published in 1929. Before its publication in book form, it was serialized in Black Mask magazine in 1928 and 1929. [ 1 ]
- Dashiell Hammett
- 1929
The nameless detective known only as the Continental Op is tasked with investigating the theft of diamonds from the Leggets, who have ties to the Dain family – a family that is said to be plagued by a terrible curse that leads those near them to gruesome deaths.
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February 29, 2024. The Dain Curse (1929) was Hammett’s second Continental Op novel following Red Harvest (also 1929). The Dain Curse was originally published in serial format in the Black Mask Magazine in 1928 and 1929 actually in four parts, although the novel form is divided into three parts, the Dains, the Temple, and Quesada.
