# Doctor Riese — The Dain Curse character guide

> Doctor Riese in The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Riese

**First appearance:** 0012-ix-tad-s-blind-man

## Who they are

Gabrielle Leggett's crisp, precise psychiatrist, who taps his black-ribboned glasses against his thumbnail and admits, quietly, that he is not satisfied.

## In the story

### [VII: The Curse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dain_curse_se/chapters/vii-the-curse)

Examines the body and declares the wound consistent with suicide, contradicting the narrator.

### [Tad's Blind Man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dain_curse_se/chapters/ix-tad-s-blind-man)

Gabrielle's physician; recommended the Temple stay and suggested the narrator for the watch; fails to appear as promised.

### [X: Dead Flowers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_dain_curse_se/chapters/x-dead-flowers)

Found dead on the altar steps with four stab wounds to the chest.

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