The Blue Book Magazine, October 1917

# The Blue Book Magazine, October 1917

This issue of the popular pulp magazine features two serialized novels and twelve short stories. The featured serials are Frank R. Adams's "Pleasure Island" and Zane Grey's "The Roaring U.P. Trail," described as a Western novel arousing widespread enthusiasm. The short fiction covers varied genres: William R. Lighton's "Billy Fortune and the Busted Flush" concerns a Wyoming man avoiding war duty who is reformed by Billy Fortune; Clarence Herbert New's "Free Lances in Diplomacy" addresses Kaiser-related espionage; Edwin L. Sabin's "Loco" depicts a horse driven mad by a psychoactive weed during battle; Wilbur Hall's "The Water-Boy" features a football story involving "The Pirate King"; and William Almon Wolff's "He Didn't Believe in Fairies" explores romance in business. Additional stories include pieces by Albert Payson Terhune, Elliott Flower, Arthur E. McFarlane, Captain A.E. Dingle, Octavus Roy Cohen, Marion McCrea, and John Barton Oxford. J.J. Bell contributes a complete novelette, "Joan's Enemies," involving a mystery about torn paper and hidden wealth. An advertisement announces a forthcoming series by Frederick R. Bechdolt featuring whaling adventures.