There are some other what are seemingly minor word changes, but there are some that might be major, so I have to read the Big Book version to find out what changes there are.Anyway, true to Hammett form, the stories are exciting although probably stretching the plots a bit (the murders are pegged to a Dain (family name) curse on its members), the wording is phenomenal and all in all a joy to read. While essentially the same stories, the final paragraph of each book is different. The reson I'm saying this is that this version published in 1929 has three sections while the Big Book of Continental Ops, recently published in 2017 and containing all Continental Ops stories in one book, has four sections to this novel.Additionally, there are some differences in the volumes. The Dain Curse is composed of 3 or 4 Continental Ops stories (depending on which version of the book your are reading). Only Dashiell Hammett could start off with the theft of diamonds and move on to murder, bogus religions, morphine addiction and more.
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