The Dain Curse
Format: kindle
ASIN: B004HFRJGW
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
American,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Hard Boiled
Series: The Continental Op (#2)
(Original Review, 1981-03-08)"We don't do it that way...You're a storywriter. I can't trust you not to build up on what I tell you. I'll save mine till after you've spoken your piece, so yours won't be twisted to fit mine."In “The Dain Curse” by Dashiell Hammett"'Are you -- who make your living snoo...
The Books: Bingo No. 3: Witches – Terry Pratchett / Neil Gaiman: Good Omens Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's hilarious end-of-the-world spoof: Armageddon as foretold in the nice and accurate predictions of one Agnes Nutter, witch. (Time of Armageddon: Next Saturday. Place: Tadfield, Oxfordshire.)...
The Books: Read by Candlelight or Flashlight – E.T.A. Hoffmann: Das Fräulein von Scuderi (Mademoiselle de Scuderi) (read by flashlight, in bed) A spooky mystery set in the 1680s, in the Paris of Louis XIV. Mlle. de Scuderi – an elderly gentlewoman who is in the confidence of the king and his maitres...
robably Hammett's weakest novel, it's very disjointed. Still a fun read.
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