The Illustrated Blue Book Magazine, January 1927

This January 1927 issue of The Blue Book Magazine contains two serials and eight short stories. The featured serial The Blue Satan by George Gibbs is a detective novel set in Pennsylvania; The Great Samarkand by Roy Norton is a mystery concluding in Egypt.

Short fiction includes The Bar E Bar Bandit by Allan Hawkwood, a New Mexico cattle-range adventure; George L. Knapp's The Nester, depicting Colorado conflict between ranchers and farmers; and Lemuel De Bra's The Silent Race, set in Chinatown. Other stories span Western settings (Senonaqua and the Lion by Bigelow Neal, Scandalous Bill's Rodeo by Bud La Mar), merchant marine adventure (The Ward of the Ship by Stephen Hopkins Orcutt to South America), diplomatic intrigue (Free Lances in Diplomacy: The Attack from Moscow by Clarence Herbert New), baseball (The Cold Shoulder by Herbert L. McNary), and humorous tales (The New Idea Cigar by Calvin Ball). H. Bedford-Jones contributes The Trail of Death, and L.P. Holmes offers Le Jeune of the Ax, a North Woods lumber story. Five reader-submitted true-experience narratives complete the issue.