The Blue Book Magazine, September 1912

Cloud City by Crittenden Marriott opens this September 1912 issue as a complete novelette. A series of prominent disappearances—millionaires, politicians, actors, scientists, and engineers—have swept across America from Maine to California. When speculators Ruskin Page and Joseph Craig vanish within hours of each other, their connections to a shady financial scheme orchestrated by the wealthy Hiram Fordney come under scrutiny. Tom Page and George Franklyn investigate their disappearances independently, puzzled by the inexplicable manner of their exit. Meanwhile, Tom encounters a mysterious girl, Miriam Walker, when his motorboat finds her stranded on a fog-shrouded Sound, beginning an unexpected romance amid the mystery. The narrative poses the question of whether Page and Craig intentionally fled to escape Fordney's scheme or became victims of something more sinister.