The Dain Curse

With the Scarpetta Cast drawing millions into forensic crime drama on Prime Video, there's never been a better time to reach back to the hard-boiled original that helped define investigative fiction. Dashiell Hammett's The Dain Curse sends his nameless Continental Op detective into a case that opens as a routine diamond theft - then spirals into murder, occult rituals, addiction, and a family curse that contaminates every lead.

Set across a shadowy San Francisco Bay Area of the late 1920s, ...