The Dain Curse - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Vintage Crime/Black LizardISBN-13:9780679722601ISBN-10:679722602UPC:9780679722601Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, Noir, ThrillersBook Topic:Hard-Boiled, SuspenseSize:8.07 x 5.22 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCDA9J1MGT
The Dain Curse
From one of the great pioneers of detective stories, a classic novel reissued with a new introduction by Amor Towles When eight diamonds are stolen from a prominent San Francisco family, the Continental Op is called in to investigate. But the missing jewels aren't the only thing out of the ordinary. The man who reported the burglary ends up dead, ostensibly a suicide. His daughter, one of the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Vintage Crime/Black LizardISBN-13:9780679722601ISBN-10:679722602UPC:9780679722601Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, Noir, ThrillersBook Topic:Hard-Boiled, SuspenseSize:8.07 x 5.22 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCDA9J1MGT
Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland. 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...
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