His crusty exterior is belied by the tender care he gives her as she cries and screams her way through release from the drug. For one week she goes through all the symptoms of drug withdrawal and the Op is with her all of the time. Leggett is a morphine addict and my favorite part of the book is the section where the Op helps to wean her off the drug.

Leggett to a place that is safe and secure.Ms. Then her husband is murdered and the Op takes Ms. There the Op has a fight with a spirit while under the influence of a sleeping gas that has been pumped into the room. Leggett end up at the Temple of the Holy Grail, a cult in San Francisco. Leggett blames herself for her father's murder which then becomes the focus of the investigation.Next the Op and Ms. This introduces the Continental Op to the man's daughter, Gabrielle Leggett, the carrier of the Dain Curse. Then the man the diamonds were stolen from is murdered. The book begins with the investigation of the theft of some low quality diamonds.

This book left me with very vivid memories.This is a Continental Op mystery and all through the novel we never learn the name of the protagonist. While this may not be Dashiell Hammett's best novel I enjoyed listening to it very much. If you at all a pulp mystery fan, or a Dashiell Hammett fan, then you'll know of the Continental Ops detective and want to read all his stories. There are some other what are seemingly minor word changes, but there are some that might be major, so I have to read the Big Book version to find out what changes there are.Anyway, true to Hammett form, the stories are exciting although probably stretching the plots a bit (the murders are pegged to a Dain (family name) curse on its members), the wording is phenomenal and all in all a joy to read.

While essentially the same stories, the final paragraph of each book is different. The reson I'm saying this is that this version published in 1929 has three sections while the Big Book of Continental Ops, recently published in 2017 and containing all Continental Ops stories in one book, has four sections to this novel.Additionally, there are some differences in the volumes.

The Dain Curse is composed of 3 or 4 Continental Ops stories (depending on which version of the book your are reading). Only Dashiell Hammett could start off with the theft of diamonds and move on to murder, bogus religions, morphine addiction and more.

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