His fellow op Mickey Linehan does razz him a bit about it (see Call-Back above). You Are Better Than You Think You Are: The Op actually spends a fair bit of a chapter essentially telling Gabrielle Leggett this when she's starting to be especially convinced that she's cursed, rotten and evil.Even her mouth, which was a mouth to talk about, looked not so much like flesh as like a too perfect imitation of flesh, softer and redder and maybe warmer than genuine flesh, but not genuine flesh." It was as if her face were not a face, but a mask that she had worn until it had almost become a face. "There was warmth and there was beauty in her olive-skinned face, but except for the eyes, it was warmth and beauty that didn't seem to have anything to do with reality. Probably best summed up when he and the Op are discussing a murder that implicates a town marshall, and the Op notes that it makes no sense in light of the previous crimes being investigated that involve Gabrielle Leggett: Smug Snake: Owen Fitzstephan, and how.Unfortunately, Joseph, whose grasp on reality was more fragile than first thought, starts believing that he really is an incarnation of the divine. Scam Religion: The Haldorns run something called The Temple of the Holy Grail, using drugs and special effects to impress their worshippers.Red Right Hand: Gabrielle believes her pointed ears and small facial features are signs of evil.Noble Demon: Gabrielle's opinion of the Op boils down to this.She also arguably gets it from Joseph and Aaronia Haldorn, but that's just standard operating procedure for their cult. Gaslighting: Sheesh, Gabrielle gets it from her stepmother and from Owen Fitzstephan."I ought to tell her what happened to that poor girl up in Poisonville that got so she thought she could trust you." Rolly says." He shook his grinning face at me. Call-Back: A rather mean one from the Op's fellow op Mickey Linehan, after listening to him try to reassure Gabrielle Leggett:.Ironically, it also dulls her reactions to the violence somewhat, so once she's off the stuff her traumatic memories are very light. The Op notes the amount of morphine she consumes is actually not especially high as such things go, but it surely can't help her face the mayhem and gaslighting (see below) she gets. Addled Addict: Gabrielle Leggett, but downplayed.An Arm and a Leg: Owen Fitzstephan gets caught basically at ground zero of a homemade bomb, barely surviving.The Op investigates a complicated web involving robbery, murder, cults, psychosis, and drug addiction enmeshing Gabrielle Leggett, who believes she is the inheritor of a curse on her mother's family.Īdapted as a TV mini-series in 1978, with James Coburn in the lead role. The Dain Curse is a 1929 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, featuring The Continental Op.
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