Egbert Warnderink "E. W." Swackhamer Jr. was an American television and film director.
Swackhamer in New York, circa 1990, directing an episode of Law & Order
The Dain Curse is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, published in 1929. Before its publication in book form, it was serialized in Black Mask magazine in 1928 and 1929.
Cover of the first edition