Аннотация
Dashiell Hammett
The Dain Curse
Part One: The Dains
I.Eight Diamonds
It was a diamond all right, shining in the grass half a dozen feet from the blue brick walk. It was small, not more than a quarter of a carat in weight, and unmounted. I put it in my pocket and began searching the lawn as closely as I could without going at it on all fours.
I had covered a couple of square yards of sod when the Leggetts' front door opened.
A woman came out on the broad stone top step and looked down at me with good-humored curiosity.
She was a woman of about my age, forty, with darkish blond hair, a pleasant plump face, and dimpled pink cheeks. She had on a lavender-flowered white housedress.
I stopped poking at the grass and went up to her, asking: "Is Mr. Leggett in?"
"Yes." Her voice was placid as her face. "You wish to see him?"
I said I did.
She smiled at me and at the lawn.
"You're anoth...
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