![]() ![]() How could one author write one book that is so good and the other so bad in the same year? Now that is an unsolved mystery! Time constraint, perhaps? ![]() The odd part is, Hammett's debut novel Red Harvest, which he published just a few months earlier in the year 1929, is one of my favorite works in the genre. I found I disliked it just as much as I did the first time, if not more so. Now, a decade a later (how time flies), I decided to take another look at Hammett's second novel, considered to be his weakest. ![]() I originally reviewed Dashiell Hammett's The Dain Curse, quite negatively, over at the website Mystery*File back in 2011 (SPOILERS in the linked review). When really in doubt, make it a pineapple ! "When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand." ![]() author Owen Fitzstephan to the Continental Op in The Dain Curse "Nobody's mysteries ought to be as tiresome as you're making this one." ![]()
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