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The Dain Curse

The Dain Curse

The Dain Curse

The Dain Curse

de Hammett, Dashiell

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0394726243
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9780394726243
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New York: Vintage Books. Near Fine. (1929) (1957) 1972. Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease.. Cover Art. 213 pages. 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. .

Sinopsis

Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary’s County. He grew up in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Hammett left school at the age of fourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter—messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming an operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. Sleuthing suited young Hammett, but World War I intervened, interrupting his work and injuring his health. When Sergeant Hammett was discharged from the last of several hospitals, he resumed detective work. He soon turned to writing, and in the late 1920s Hammett became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. In The Maltese Falcon (1930) he first introduced his famous private eye, Sam Spade. The Thin Man (1932) offered another immortal sleuth, Nick Charles. Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), and The Glass Key (1931) are among his most successful novels. During World War II, Hammett again served as sergeant in the Army, this time for more than two years, most of which he spent in the Aleutians. Hammett’s later life was marked in part by ill health, alcoholism, a period of imprisonment related to his alleged membership in the Communist Party, and by his long-time companion, the author Lillian Hellman, with whom he had a very volatile relationship. His attempt at autobiographical fiction survives in the story “Tulip,” which is contained in the posthumous collection The Big Knockover (1966, edited by Lillian Hellman). Another volume of his stories, The Continental Op (1974, edited by Stephen Marcus), introduced the final Hammett character: the “Op,” a nameless detective (or “operative”) who displays little of his personality, making him a classic tough guy in the hard-boiled mold—a bit like Hammett himself.

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Librería
Storbeck's US (US)
Inventario del vendedor #
601574
Título
The Dain Curse
Autor
Hammett, Dashiell
Ilustrador
Reingold, Alan
Formato/Encuadernación
Mass Market Paperback
Estado del libro
Usado - Near Fine
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10
0394726243
ISBN 13
9780394726243
Editorial
Vintage Books
Lugar de publicación
New York
Fecha de publicación
(1929) (1957) 1972
Palabras clave
FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, HARD BOILED
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Fiction / Mystery/Detective;

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