The Dain Curse

The curse of the house Dain ( engl. The Dain Curse ) is an American novel by Dashiell Hammett from the year 1929. It is his second book after Red Harvest, which was released in the same year. The story is divided into three almost independent parts: The Dain, The Temple and Quesada.

Action

It begins with eight small diamonds disappear and the " Nameless Detective " by Continentals (English Continental Op as an abbreviation for Continental Operative) by the competent insurance entrusted with investigations is. One of the stones can be found quickly (the novel begins ), from then on, however, it is becoming more complicated and there are more and more often a death. Later, the man of Continental lands in the course of its investigative activities in the temple of an obscure sect, and finally in Mexico.

Narrative method

Like the stories about the Continental Op and the first Continental Op novel Red Harvest corresponds Curse of the house Dain ( according to the terminology of Franz K. Stanzel ) the type of personal first-person narrative. The detective tells the act itself, to give insight into his reflections from his perspective without an unspecified within the fiction narrative situation, and without the readers. While Hammett for his next two - today most well known - novels, The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key, the narrative form selected in the third person, he returned with his last novel, The Thin Man, to which in the curse of the house Dain and the other Continental Op texts practiced I - shape.

Others

Hammett dedicated the novel, at the beginning so the search for diamonds is, the jeweler Albert S. Samuels, for whom he had worked as a copywriter. For the fictional characters he chose the name of his former colleagues in Samuels ' company.

Novels Red Harvest | The Curse of the house Dain | The Maltese Falcon | The Glass Key | The Woman in the Dark | The Thin Man

Short stories The large folding / detective at Continental 's | The Return of the Continental OP | A Man Named Thin

  • Literary work
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Crime Fiction
  • Literature (United States)
  • Dashiell Hammett
  • Novel, epic
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