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In one of the Continental Op’s most unsettling cases, the short, squat detective is drawn into a web of mystery when young, wealthy Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett, a devoted morphine addict and member of a religious cult, appears to have a fatal curse attached to her. Each encounter with her ends in violent death, raising questions about whether the Dain family is truly cursed or whether a darker truth lies beneath the surface. The book delivers a tense, hard‑boiled mystery centered on the Op’s relentless pursuit of the truth amid bizarre and dangerous revelations.
First publish date: 1929
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Dashiell Hammett
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