The Blue Book Magazine, February 1917

# Catalog Description

The Blue Book Magazine, February 1917, contains thirteen short stories and two serials by notable pulp and adventure authors. Gilbert Parker's "Bills Payable" opens the issue, depicting a frontier murder in Askatoon when Michele Bordinot dies from a knife wound inflicted by Wybert Grieve during a river quarrel. Dudy Massaw, a settler, discovers Grieve's identity from a discarded letter and faces a moral dilemma. The issue includes Tarzan stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs, "The Luck of the Lucy Lermond" by Newell O. Morse (maritime adventure), and "Old King Coal" by Robert J. Casey (industrial espionage). Ongoing serials are Arthur Somers Roche's mystery "Ransom!" and George Washington Ogden's "Vagabonds of Chance" depicting the Oklahoma land-rush. A complete novel, Harry Irving Greene's "Jill-o'-the-Moon," concerns a man born with illegitimate status. Contributors include Ellis Parker Butler, Kennett Harris, and Clarence Herbert New.