The Illustrated Blue Book Magazine, September 1926

The Blue Book Magazine, September 1926

This issue contains ten short stories and two serials in the adventure, Western, and detective genres. Featured works include Jay Lucas's "Vanishing Herds," a novel set on the Arizona range by a former cowpuncher and professional hunter; William Byron Mowery's "The Deadfall," a Northern drama; H. Bedford-Jones's detective tale "Five Years After" starring Clancy and Jim Logan; and Stephen Hopkins Orcutt's merchant marine story "A Ship Must Pay Her Way." Additional fiction includes tales of desert intrigue, Western gambling debts, baseball, Chinatown violence, and diplomatic schemes by authors including Clarence Herbert New, Lemuel DeBra, and Dris Deming. Two serials continue: Robert Ames Bennet's "Go-Getter Gary," following an Eastern gunman in ranch country, and E. S. Pladwell's "The Lost Frontier," featuring the climax of a remote Western situation. Five accounts of remarkable real experiences round out the issue, including war mysteries and tales from Prohibition-era smuggling operations.