The Illustrated Blue Book Magazine, November 1926

The Blue Book Magazine, November 1926

This issue presents diverse popular fiction, primarily adventure, mystery, and commercial fiction. The two serials are Roy Norton's "The Great Samarkand," described as an alluring novel of discovery, and Robert Ames Bennet's "Go-getter Gary," a Western adventure concluding with intense action sequences.

Short novels and stories include William Byron Mowery's "The Arnold Legacy," a North Woods mining drama; Joseph Blethen's Alaskan tale "Seven on the Red"; Homer King Gordon's football story "A Pledge Redeemed"; and Carl Clausen's sailor narrative "On the Midnight Tide." H. Bedford-Jones contributes "The Trail of Death," an aerial combat sequence set in a London-Paris airplane cabin. Other stories span the Bad Lands, diplomatic intrigue, motoring adventures, and Chinatown life. The "Stories of Real Experience" section includes baseball, business ventures, and war memoir content. Illustrations accompany most pieces.