I had never read Dashiell Hammett before picking up this book. According to other reviewers, The Dain Curse is atypical of Hammett, but of course that doesn’t matter to a first-time reader. I wanted to try something from the master of 1920s hard-boiled detective fiction, and sure enough the book was entertaining, despite a plot [...]
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